** Description changed: This is on a (relatively) vanilla installation of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS 32-bit, with no modifications having been made to /etc/mime.types other than any changes that might have been performed by packages installed through synaptic. $ uname -a Linux naisu 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04 LTS" Observe the following behaviour: $ cat > mime.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; print "mime"; $ file -b mime.pl a /usr/bin/perl script, ASCII text executable $ file -b -i mime.pl Expected output: text/x-perl; charset=us-ascii Actual output: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Oddly, when the -i flag is omitted, the 'file' utility correctly identifies the file as a Perl script, but as soon as it's added it seems - to revert back to text/plain. I've checked /etc/mime.types (even though - it hasn't been modified by me directly), and the perl line is present: + to revert back to text/plain. Setting the +x flag on the file makes no + difference. I've checked /etc/mime.types (even though it hasn't been + modified by me directly), and the perl line is present: $ cat /etc/mime.types | grep x-perl text/x-perl pl pm The same commands on a Debian Lenny 5.0.9 system yields the expected output: $ file -b mime.pl a /usr/bin/perl script text executable $ file -b -i mime.pl text/x-perl
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