[Gllug] StarOffice

[Nix]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Paul Brazier gibbered:
> You can use the "file" command to get the type of a file.
> Apparently it uses some kind of heuristics to work out if it's an
> executable, text, picture, movie, shell script etc.

`Apparently'? The man page repeatedly states it!

Further, the magic number heuristics are programmable; see
/usr/share/magic (which has a man page of its own).

> So you could I suppose call your shell scripts *.txt or *.jpeg and
> programs should still know what they really are.

This is why extensions are not widely used on Unix boxes; file(1) is
better.

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