Hello, (1) I can not reproduce this. What is your exact version of "file" according to dpkg? Mine is 5.11-2+deb7u2 (my Debian is wheezy).
$ cat test #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "Hello World\n"; $ file test test: Perl script, ASCII text executable (2) Could it be something specific in your script? Try deleting parts of the script (in a copy, of course) and see if "file" starts detecting correctly after some specific part of the script is gone. If you can show what exactly causes it, you may file a bug against "file" in Debian BTS. Toomas On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 12:06 +0100, René Bleisch wrote: > Hi, > Apparently, something went amiss with the linux "file" command since > it was last updated in apt... (last week or so)
