BK-ISASCII(1)

💖 bk isascii — check that a file is ascii 💖

okay so this is the bk isascii(none) page from the BitKeeper User’s Manual, and it’s giving “tiny utility, huge main character energy” ✨ bestie, we’re checking whether a file is plain ASCII or whether it’s got that binary gremlin vibe going on.

✨ NAME ✨

bk isascii — check that a file is ascii 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bk isascii filename

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bk isascii looks through a file for binary data which BitKeeper can not handle without encoding the file. And what counts as binary data here? Literally a NULL (zero byte). That’s the whole vibe check 🫶

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

bk isascii returns exit status:

• 0 — if filename is ASCII
• 1 — if filename is not ASCII
• 2 — if an error occurs

🎀 CATEGORY 🎀

Utility

💖 sign-off: BitKeeper Inc, version 1E1, bk isascii(none) — and this footer doesn’t list a date, bestie, so no cap. 💖