If you expect a certian pattern of text in the file, I think, you can grep the file from the expected text pattern. If you find any, then the file is not encrypted; otherwise, the probability of the file being encrypted would be higher.
--Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://arbornet.org/~ahmed On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ray Murphy wrote: > Hello, > > Want to make sure I'm not missing anything here. My > task is to see if a file looks like it's encrypted. > I'm splitting the path/filename/extension via > File::Basename and checking to see if the extension is > ..pgp or .gpg. I'm also checking to see if the file is > a text file via 'if (-T $file)'. Is there any other > (better) way of testing to see if a file is encrypted? > I don't want to call the decryption routines if the > file is not encrypted. > > Cheers > > Ray. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
