Announcing summershum

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Wed Feb 12 14:13:54 UTC 2014


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 08:43:18AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:31:28PM +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > > > The small one is that it might be nice to include the output of `file` on
> > > > each file. 
> > Technically doable but I'm curious, what use-case do you have in mind?
> 
> Looking for binaries, blobs, and archives that have crept in to the source.

Cool, good idea :)

> Also, pretty charts. :)

Dang, you found my one weakness! Arg!!

> > Plus I've ran into:
> > $ file /usr/share/doc/python-magic-5.04/example.py -b
> > ASCII Java program text
> > Seems legit, right? :)
> 
> Comes out "Python script, ASCII text executable" on Rawhide....

Indeed, that was on an EL6 machine, I was checking if that library was available
on EL6 (OS of our infra).

Pierre


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