On Sep 17, 10 02:26, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
KennyTM~ wrote:
On Sep 16, 10 04:35, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I didn't think unix file systems had a concept of mime type.
It doesn't, but Unix tools use the file contents to determine the
mime type and then choose the app associated to the mime type.
Jerome
Please don't confuse Unix with a distro.
Which distro? I used the terms "Unix tools" because it transcends
distributions and Unices. It is as true on Ubuntu as on *BSD or
Solaris...
Jerome
BTW: http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
<quote>
Unlike most GUI systems, command-line UNIX systems - with this
program leading the charge - don't rely on filename extentions to
tell you the type of a file, but look at the file's actual contents.
</quote>
They say "UNIX systems", they don't say "Ubuntu" (which I don't use
anyway).
Jerome
This describes the file(1) command, which the job is to inspect the file
content and conclude what kind of file it actually is.
But this is just one particular UNIX command. The command line interface
in general does not care about the type of a regular file. This is
needed in the GUI, but it is outside of the common parts of UNIX. There
is no rule saying that a file manager must use file(1) or MIME type or
extensions to determine the file type.
