[debbugs-tracker] bug#23466: closed (file command bug)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: file command bug Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 12:38:06 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2

Hi

The file command probably reports some text files ending with 'end.' as Pascal source files like in the following example:

 % file /usr/lib/erlang/**/*.* | grep -i pascal

/usr/lib/erlang/lib/ic-4.3.6/src/ic_codegen.erl:                                                          Pascal source, ASCII text
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/kernel-3.2/src/inet_dns.erl:                                                          Pascal source, ASCII text
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/stdlib-2.4/examples/erl_id_trans.erl:                                                 Pascal source, ASCII text
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/stdlib-2.4/src/erl_expand_records.erl:                                                Pascal source, ASCII text
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/stdlib-2.4/src/erl_parse.erl:                                                         Pascal source, ASCII text
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/stdlib-2.4/src/qlc_pt.erl:                                                            Pascal source, ASCII text

Erlang files may end with the string "end." since the dot marker is used to terminate expressions.
So, the file command should take into account file extensions (.p or .pas)  or file MIME types to report Pascal source files.

Best regards.
Brahim Djoudi

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#23466: file command bug Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 09:39:15 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0

tag 23466 notabug
thanks

On 05/06/2016 04:38 AM, Djoudi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The *file* command probably reports some text files ending with 'end.'

Thanks for the report.  However, you mailed the coreutils list, but
'file' is not part of the coreutils.  Per 'file --help', you should
report file bugs to http://bugs.gw.com/.  I'm closing out this entry in
the coreutils bug database, as there is nothing further we can do here.

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