Sebastian Nowicki wrote:
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.
You can find the online copy here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/file...
I just looked through it again and it appears there's a "legacy" section, which does use the lower case -i…
I was fine with this change because it thought it was needed for every BSD platform, but seeing it is just a mac osx change almost makes me want to reconsider. Why did they change that? And if you just use COMMAND_MODE=legacy to restore the normal interface, this patch is no longer needed?