On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:33:19AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: } A quick search in Google didn't reveal any solution (only found one } reference, in Japanese). } } $ file -i file.sxw } file.sxw: application/x-zip } } It would be really nice if 'file' could give proper the correct type for } OpenOffice documents. Anyone who has an entry for /etc/magic that make } sit happen?
This is a deeper problem than just OOorg. There has been dissatisfaction with file's reporting for compressed/gzipped/bzipped/zipped files for a good long time, and the idea of having file actually decompress some of the data to get a more accurate result has come up in the past. There are, in fact, reasonably good ways to wrap file with a shell script to get the desired results, but I don't know of an implementation of the file program that supports examining the contents of a compressed file. There is no reason it couldn't be done, of course; the file program in /usr/bin on Debian is GNU's GPL'd file implementation. I could imagine, however, that depending on lots of compression libraries might be an obstacle to widespread adoption. One would also have to be confident of the libraries' licenses. (I *think* all the compression formats I've mentioned have GPL or LGPL libraries.) Ultimately, I'd love to see it done, and I encourage you to get programming. } /M --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
