On 26 August 2017 at 14:38, Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi jerry,
>
>> $ file --brief --dereference --mime-type test/mhbuild/nulls
>> binary
>
> Could you tell us about that file(1). I found a site for Mageia
> packages, but it didn't have one called `file' so I wasn't sure what
> package contained the command, and where it got the source from, what
> version, etc.
>
> Here, with Arch Linux's file 5.31-1 package, I get
>
> $ file --brief --dereference --mime-type test/mhbuild/nulls
> application/octet-stream
> $ file --version
> file-5.31
> magic file from /usr/share/file/misc/magic
> $
Ralph,
The version of Mageia I'm running is back level. It went out of support
over a year ago. I generall upgrade to their even releases (once every
two years, rather than annually).
Here is the information on the file command:
[jerry@unix nmh-1.7-RC3]$ file --version
file-5.16
magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic
[jerry@unix nmh-1.7-RC3]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/file
file-5.16-1.10.mga4
jerry
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