Hi Chris,

Thanks for checking!  Guess will have to wait until fidentify is part of
the stable ver.

Gene

 
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:47:08 -0400, "Chris Knadle"
<[email protected]> said:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2010 11:02:09 WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote:
> > Hope that someone uses TestDisk. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> 
> I've used it for a couple of things -- most often to remake a default
> MSDOS 
> MBR on a hard disk.
> 
> > The latest ver BETA: TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.12-WIP  contains fidentify.
> > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_6.12_Release
> 
> 'apt-get show testdisk' for TestDisk on Debian testing/sid shows a longer
> list 
> of file types that PhotoRec can recover:
> 
>   * Sun/NeXT audio data (.au)
>   * RIFF audio/video (.avi/.wav)
>   * BMP bitmap (.bmp)
>   * bzip2 compressed data (.bz2)
>   * Source code written in C (.c)
>   * Canon Raw picture (.crw)
>   * Canon catalog (.ctg)
>   * FAT subdirectory
>   * Microsoft Office Document (.doc)
>   * Nikon dsc (.dsc)
>   * HTML page (.html)
>   * JPEG picture (.jpg)
>   * MOV video (.mov)
>   * MP3 audio (MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1) (.mp3)
>   * Moving Picture Experts Group video (.mpg)
>   * Minolta Raw picture (.mrw)
>   * Olympus Raw Format picture (.orf)
>   * Portable Document Format (.pdf)
>   * Perl script (.pl)
>   * Portable Network Graphics (.png)
>   * Raw Fujifilm picture (.raf)
>   * Contax picture (.raw)
>   * Rollei picture (.rdc)
>   * Rich Text Format (.rtf)
>   * Shell script (.sh)
>   * Tar archive (.tar )
>   * Tag Image File Format (.tiff)
>   * Microsoft ASF (.wma)
>   * Sigma/Foveon X3 raw picture (.x3f)
>   * zip archive (.zip)
> 
> 
> > "fidentify, a
> > little utility sharing PhotoRec signature database, is now build by
> > default. It identifies the type of data contained in a file and reports
> > the extension as seen by PhotoRec. It is similar to the Unix file
> > command."
> > 
> > Have done a number of searches to find out how to use fidentify but have
> > found nothing to date. Searched for a dedicated English TestDisk but
> > also nothing.
> > 
> > Since "It is similar to the Unix file command." am wondering if it would
> > have similar commands?
> 
> The Debian testing/sid version of TestDisk does not come with the
> fidentify 
> command, so I don't have a man page for it.  However looking at the code
> for 
> fidentify here:
> 
>   http://www.sfr-
> fresh.com/linux/misc/testdisk-6.11.tar.gz:a/testdisk-6.11/src/fidentify.c
> 
> I don't see it taking in command-line switches to change behavior similar
> to 
> the 'file' command -- so I think the answer to your question is no.
> 
> [And if you want the testdisk code, I suggest you get the upstream git
> repo 
> here:  http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Developers ]
> 
> 
>   -- Chris
> 
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> 
> Chris Knadle
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