[lug] help

[David Morris]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:03:15PM +0200, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 05:04:30PM +0530, vinatha.komirishetty at wipro.com wrote:
> >      I would like to find the type of file (ie) whether it' s  an
> > UTF-8/Ascii/Ebcidic File..could u plz do enough help to solve this
> > issue.

As already noted it is VERY difficult to answer the question
with so little information.

One program that might help though is `file`, which is
standard on most Linux installations.  It does a good job of
detecting the file type and (if text) character encoding.
It isn't perfect (nothing can be in this regard), but its
the best I've found.

--David