On 26/05/2008, at 12:08 AM, Xavier wrote: > Sebastian Nowicki wrote: >> The equivalent of the "-i" argument for file on Linux is "-I" on BSD. >> Both version allow the use of the long option "--mime". >> > > I checked freebsd and netbsd man pages, both seem to use -i as well. > I could not check openbsd one, the page is unavailable. > Where can we find other (older?) bsd man pages?
I thought I sent a mail about that earlier, but I guess it didn't go through. -I is used on Mac OSX. When sending the patch I thought I checked that this was the case in other BSD man pages, but I must have confused that with something else. From the Mac OSX (Leopard 1.5) man page: > -I, --mime > Causes the file command to output mime type strings rather > than > the more traditional human readable ones. Thus it may > say > ``text/plain; charset=us-ascii'' rather than ``ASCII > text''. > In order for this option to work, file changes the way it > han- > dles files recognised by the command itself (such as many > of > the text file types, directories etc), and makes use of > an > alternative ``magic'' file. (See ``FILES'' section, below). > > -i If the file is a regular file do not classify its contents. You can find the online copy here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/file.1.html I just looked through it again and it appears there's a "legacy" section, which does use the lower case -i… -- Sebastian Nowicki _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
