Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I need a program that will traverse a directory tree to ensure that > there > are unix-style line endings on every file in that tree that is a text > file. > To tell text files from others I want to use the unix "file" command > (Python's "mimetypes" is not so good for me). But I am stuck on > something about getting that output, and I'd greatly appreciate any > pointers. > > Both the command line "file" and the python libmagic binding give the > same behavior, but I'll illustrate with "file". It sometimes acts > differently when run from the command line than when run using > the subprocess module (with the same user). For example, it > sometimes > gives output when run from the command line but no output when run as > a subprocess. > > Below is a short program to demo. (I use this on a test file tree > that is at ftp://joshua.smcvt.edu/pub/hefferon/a.zip if anyone > is interested.)
[...] > I've put a transcript of what happens at the bottom of this message. > One file (in the test tree it is "eqchange.txt") gives no output from > the above program, but does give an output when I use "file" at the > command line. [...] > -----transcript (edited to shorten)------------ > $ python test.py > result: acrotex/readme.txt: ASCII English text, with CRLF line > terminators > > result: acrotex/eq2db.ins: ASCII English text, with CRLF line > terminators > > result: acrotex/eqchange.txt: > > result: acrotex/exerquiz.dtx: ISO-8859 English text, with CRLF line > terminators > result: acrotex/doc: directory > > done > > $ file acrotex/eqchange.txt > acrotex/eqchange.txt: ISO-8859 English text, with CRLF line That's interesting. I've checked this eqchange.txt file from your a.zip on my machine and the result is: $ file acrotex/readme.txt acrotex/readme.txt: ASCII English text, with CRLF line terminators $ file acrotex/eqchange.txt acrotex/eqchange.txt: $ file acrotex/exerquiz.dtx acrotex/exerquiz.dtx: ISO-8859 English text, with CRLF line terminators $ file -v file-4.17 magic file from /etc/magic:/usr/share/file/magic $ uname -orvm 2.6.18-4-k7 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:42:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux That's really strange. Have you got only *one* version of ``file`` program on your machine? -- HTH, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
