Re: 'file' command truncates at 31 characters (with long #! lines)

[Eric Blake]

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According to Stan Marsh on 9/6/2008 12:50 PM:
> See below.  At step 2, the 'file' command truncates the final 'F' in the
> filename.  I'm assuming some buffer is only 32 bytes long, so only strings
> up to 31 characters are supported.  Note that the script does work just fine
> (i.e., this version of Linux has no problem running a #! script where the
> interpreter pathname is longer than 31 characters)
> 
> (1) % file --version
> file-4.21

Thanks for the report.  However, file is not part of coreutils, so you are
better off reporting this to the file maintainer.  We can't do anything
about it here.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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