Re: [CentOS] file command returns incorrect MIME type?

On Friday 03 March 2006 16:33, Bart Schaefer wrote:

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Here's the problem:

[ben@kepler tmp]# file -i presentation.ppt presentation.ppt: application/msword

Excerpt from /usr/share/magic.mime:

-- SNIP --

The middle one of those matches the first six bytes of a powerpoint file. Whether it also might match the first six bytes of some msword documents, I don't know.

It seems to match *any* document type. I've gotten in touch with the developer of the Canadian who maintains the "file" command (it's Christos) and he's asked for the first few thousand bytes of the file, which I've sent.

Looks like the resolution of this sits outside the CentOS mailing list.

-Ben