Dear Ruby Guru:
Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system, Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg, word, excel, visio, etc ...
Thanks
M. Eteum wrote:
Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system, Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg, word, excel, visio, etc ...
Hi,
On a Unix system you could use the "file" command, it is able to detect file types even when there's no extension.
I don't know if a Ruby module exists for this purpose though.
Regards,
Robin
ke, 2005-06-01 kello 19:00, M. Eteum kirjoitti:
Dear Ruby Guru:
Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a
bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system,
Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document
does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header
should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg,
word, excel, visio, etc ...Thanks
Hello,
If you have shared-mime-info database installed
( http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo )
you can use this: http://www.code-monkey.de/projects/mimeInfoRb.html
Or my extended version: http://dark.fhtr.org/mime_info_rb.tar.gz
From the README:
MimeInfo class provides an interface to query freedesktop.org's
shared-mime-info database. It can be used to guess a filename's
Mimetype and to get the description for the Mimetype.
require 'mime_info'
info = MimeInfo.get('foo.xml') #=> Mimetype['text/xml']
info.description
#=> "eXtensible Markup Language document"
info.description("de") #=> "XML-Dokument"
info2 = MimeInfo.get('foo.rb') #=> Mimetype['application/x-ruby']
info2.description #=> "Ruby script"
info2.is_a? Mimetype['text/plain'] #=> true
t = Mimetype['audio/x-mp3'] #=> Mimetype['audio/x-mp3']
t.description #=> "MP3 audio"
t.description('cy') #=> "Sain MP3"
t.descriptions['fr'] #=> "audio MP3"
t == Mimetype['audio']['x-mp3'] #=> true
t.is_a? Mimetype['audio'] #=> true
t.ancestors #=> [Mimetype['audio/x-mp3'], Mimetype['audio'],
# Mimetype['application/octet-stream'], Mimetype,
# Module, Object, Kernel]
HTH,
Ilmari
Not yet. 
I do plan on adding it to MIME::Types in the future.
-austin
On 6/1/05, Robin Stocker <robin-lists-ruby-talk@nibor.org> wrote:
M. Eteum wrote:
> Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a
> bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system,
> Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document
> does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header
> should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg,
> word, excel, visio, etc ...
On a Unix system you could use the "file" command, it is able to detect
file types even when there's no extension.
I don't know if a Ruby module exists for this purpose though.
--
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
* Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
Robin Stocker wrote:
M. Eteum wrote:
Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system, Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg, word, excel, visio, etc ...
Hi,
On a Unix system you could use the "file" command, it is able to detect file types even when there's no extension.
I don't know if a Ruby module exists for this purpose though.Regards,
Robin
Thanks for the reply.
I'm running on Windows as well as MAC. We exchange files between both OS. Ruby modules that can handle this function would have been nice but I'll take anything for now.
Thanks again
Most of this is covered by MIME::Types on RubyForge. However, the OP
indicated that the problem was related to NOT having proper filename
extensions. The OP wants to look for magic numbers and strings.
-austin
On 6/1/05, Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@misfiring.net> wrote:
ke, 2005-06-01 kello 19:00, M. Eteum kirjoitti:
> Dear Ruby Guru:
> Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a
> bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system,
> Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document
> does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header
> should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg,
> word, excel, visio, etc ...
>
> Thanks
--
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
* Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
Austin Ziegler wrote:
On 6/1/05, Robin Stocker <robin-lists-ruby-talk@nibor.org> wrote:
M. Eteum wrote:
Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a
bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system,
Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document
does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header
should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg,
word, excel, visio, etc ...On a Unix system you could use the "file" command, it is able to detect
file types even when there's no extension.
I don't know if a Ruby module exists for this purpose though.Not yet.
-austin
Super! Oh by the way, do you know if Perl or Python has it? I'm quite desperate to find the solution, therefore I'll take any solution while waiting for the Ruby modules.
Thanks
ke, 2005-06-01 kello 23:33, Austin Ziegler kirjoitti:
> ke, 2005-06-01 kello 19:00, M. Eteum kirjoitti:
> > Dear Ruby Guru:
> > Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a
> > bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system,
> > Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document
> > does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header
> > should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg,
> > word, excel, visio, etc ...
> >
> > ThanksMost of this is covered by MIME::Types on RubyForge. However, the OP
indicated that the problem was related to NOT having proper filename
extensions. The OP wants to look for magic numbers and strings.
Shared-mime-info does this aswell. Though it may fare worse than file in
some cases.
kig@bauhaus:~$ mv fire.avi fire
kig@bauhaus:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'mime_info'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> MimeInfo.get('fire')
=> Mimetype['video/x-msvideo']
On 6/1/05, Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@misfiring.net> wrote:
Your best bet would be to find a windows port of unix's 'file' (Mac OSX
is definitely bound to have it). Sadly, it's a very hard thing to google
for 
martin
M. Eteum <meteum@yahoo.com> wrote:
Super! Oh by the way, do you know if Perl or Python has it? I'm quite
desperate to find the solution, therefore I'll take any solution while
waiting for the Ruby modules.
Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
ke, 2005-06-01 kello 23:33, Austin Ziegler kirjoitti:
ke, 2005-06-01 kello 19:00, M. Eteum kirjoitti:
Dear Ruby Guru:
Is there a way to identify any documents from its header? I have a
bunch of document collected over the year from multi platform system,
Mac, Windows, and various unix/linux variant where some of the document
does not have file extension. Are there a list that tells us what header
should we expect for certain documents e.g. txt, rtf, pdf, jpg, mpg,
word, excel, visio, etc ...Thanks
Most of this is covered by MIME::Types on RubyForge. However, the OP
indicated that the problem was related to NOT having proper filename
extensions. The OP wants to look for magic numbers and strings.Shared-mime-info does this aswell. Though it may fare worse than file in
some cases.kig@bauhaus:~$ mv fire.avi fire
kig@bauhaus:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'mime_info'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> MimeInfo.get('fire')
=> Mimetype['video/x-msvideo']
Thanks, but where do you get the mime_info.rb? I'm running "ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]" and it seems it does not have the necessary files.
Thanks
On 6/1/05, Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@misfiring.net> wrote:
You're in luck - gnuwin32 includes a port of file.
All you need to do is a = `file.exe #{filename}`
martin
Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
M. Eteum <meteum@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Super! Oh by the way, do you know if Perl or Python has it? I'm quite
> desperate to find the solution, therefore I'll take any solution while
> waiting for the Ruby modules.Your best bet would be to find a windows port of unix's 'file' (Mac OSX
is definitely bound to have it). Sadly, it's a very hard thing to google
for