note taint Greetings [|chromatic], and thank you for your reply.<p> Indeed. file(1) depends on it's "Magic" file||dir for it's response(s), and they aren't extremely concise. But, it was only after noticing that my editor wasn't reporting a change from iso-8859-1 to utf8, that I used file(1) to help me confirm that my editor had not stopped functioning reliably after all these years. I might also add, my editor also recognizes when a file that it has opened has been "touched" -- as do all <em>modern</em> editors.</p> <p>I'll probably have to try and create a filter using [|] to pipe these files through.</p> <p>I was just hoping that those utilities that were already designed to perform just such tasks, would | could accomplish this.</p><br> Thanks again chromatic, for taking the time to respond.<br><br> --chris<br><br> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-977156"> <pre>#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw <font color=#dd0000>use perl::always;</font> my $perl_version = "5.12.4"; print $perl_version;</pre> </div></div> 1037259 1037484