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Source package: file
Version: 5.43-alt2
Latest version according to Repology
Build time:  Oct 25, 2022, 06:47 PM in the task #308984
Category: File tools
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License: BSD-2-Clause
Summary: File type guesser
Description: 
The file command is "a file type guesser", that is, a command-line tool that
tells you in words what kind of data a file contains. Unlike most GUI systems,
command-line UNIX systems - with this program leading the charge - don't rely
on filename extentions to tell you the type of a file, but look at the file's
actual contents. This is, of course, more reliable, but requires a bit of I/O.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
file (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
file-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libmagic (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libmagic-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libmagic-devel (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)

Maintainer: Michael Shigorin


ACL:
@core
Vitaly Chikunov

    1. bzlib-devel
    2. libzstd-devel
    3. lzip
    4. ncompress
    5. libcap-devel
    6. libseccomp-devel
    7. strace
    8. zlib-devel
    9. liblzma-devel

Last changed


Oct. 25, 2022 Michael Shigorin 5.43-alt2
- Fix build --without check.
Sept. 14, 2022 Vitaly Chikunov 5.43-alt1
- Update to FILE5_43-2-g37d21b82 (2022-09-14).
- Zstd decompression is built-in now.
June 14, 2022 Vitaly Chikunov 5.42-alt1
- Update to FILE5_42-4-g7a1f533c (2022-06-13).