Re: Testing a file if it is binary or not.

2007-08-21 Thread Robert Clark
On Monday August 20, 2007, "David Weintraub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would use a Perl script to read the first 8000 or so bytes of a > file and look for characters outside of what you'd expect to be > ASCII range. Using Perl, the -T (for text) and -B (for binary) flags do pretty much exac

RE: Testing a file if it is binary or not.

2007-08-21 Thread Rebhan, Gilbert
Hi, -Original Message- From: Ditrick, Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 9:01 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Testing a file if it is binary or not. /* Does anyone have any ideas other than using the files extension as a guide and praying that you have them

Re: Testing a file if it is binary or not.

2007-08-20 Thread David Weintraub
I certainly wouldn't do this in Ant! I would use a Perl script to read the first 8000 or so bytes of a file and look for characters outside of what you'd expect to be ASCII range. Probably do a "cvs import" first, then go back through and see if there are any files that were added that were binar

Testing a file if it is binary or not.

2007-08-20 Thread Ditrick, Gregory
This may not be for this forum, but I'm moving a PVCS repository to a CVS repository. I'm using ant to do this with cvs and pvcs tasks. I have to test a if a file is binary or not before adding it to CVS, but I have to do this on a Windows box. It is easy on Unix (file | grep...) or using or .