Re: jpegs throwing up 'ambiguous filetype' dialog

  • From: Phil Grundig <wdef200@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:15:24 +0000 (GMT)

> As it happens, I already applied something similar. Trouble
> is, scanning for "executable" in file(1) output
> does not identify all relevant items

I know it gets ELF binaries and shell scripts.  What does it miss?

Re: symlinks - I notice from the man page that the -L option to file is 
supposed to cause it to follow symbolic links - that might fix the breakage I 
mentioned concerning my demo patch.





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