Re: finding corrupt files

2006-12-18 Thread D. Bolliger
Sharan Basappa am Montag, 18. Dezember 2006 08:09: > On 12/17/06, D. Bolliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sharan Basappa am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2006 16:22: > > > > Hello > > > > > While going through some of the old text files, which til now I thought > > > were in good shape, found > > > that

Re: finding corrupt files

2006-12-17 Thread Sharan Basappa
actuall these look like invalid ascii files to me (files seem to look like binary content). typically this happens when I transfer files from one machine to another using my usb key. But this is not the case with all files. So this is the reason I wanted to know if there is a way to recursively go

Re: finding corrupt files

2006-12-17 Thread D. Bolliger
Sharan Basappa am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2006 16:22: Hello > While going through some of the old text files, which til now I thought > were in good shape, found > that some of the files were corrupt and contained garbage data. We need to know more; what garbage? Where in the file? Are the files

Re: finding corrupt files

2006-12-17 Thread Jeff Pang
>While going through some of the old text files, which til now I thought were >in good shape, found >that some of the files were corrupt and contained garbage data. I would like >to know if there is a >simple way to find this out using script since I have 100s of such files and >it is difficult fo

finding corrupt files

2006-12-17 Thread Sharan Basappa
While going through some of the old text files, which til now I thought were in good shape, found that some of the files were corrupt and contained garbage data. I would like to know if there is a simple way to find this out using script since I have 100s of such files and it is difficult for me t