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- <li><em>date</em>: Mon Nov 15 23:56:12 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: christopher at bergeron.com (Christopher Bergeron)</li>
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- <li><em>subject</em>: [ale] Re: What package contains "file" ? - solved! it's "file"</li>
For those that are interested in the link its:
<a rel="nofollow" href="ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-4.10.tar.gz";>ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-4.10.tar.gz</a>
It's the utility that identifies file types - and boy is it a tricky one
to search for.
Best regards,
CB
Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know what package/tarball contains the binary: file ?
> 'file' is used to identify what type of file a file is. Hrm, I gather
> that it's silly to try to explain what I'm looking for to they whom
> don't know what 'file' is/does.
>
> For those that do, can anyone enlighten me? It's this very reason
> that I haven't been able to come up with a suitable search key for
> google. Searching for "file linux" (and every other combination that
> I've tried for that matter) results in nothing but tangents. I
> thought it was in coreutils, but I was mistaken.
>
> Can anyone clue me in on this simple one?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -CB
>
>
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