[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Use "--mime" instead of file's "-i" parameter, to increase portability

[Sebastian Nowicki]

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