Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:50:41 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file(1) returns amusing result Message-ID: <20020218075041.C48401@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200202180623.g1I6Ndk71540@lists.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:23:08AM -0500 References: <200202180623.g1I6Ndk71540@lists.unixathome.org>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:23:08AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > As part of my FreshPorts fun, I decided that after fetching a file from > cvsweb, I should make sure the fetch worked. I decided to do that via > file(1) and inspect the output. I was testing for ASCII, but that appears > to not be good enough. Now I just test for HTML and reverse the sense of > the test. > > Here was the most amusing output: > > $ file -b /usr/home/dan/ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile > Apple Old Partition data block size: 21117 first type: AS_CONFIGURE= > yes, number of blocks: 1702047597, > > $ head /usr/home/dan/ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile > # ports collection makefile for: MySQL++ > # Date created: 20th July 2000 > # Whom: Miklos Niedermayer <mico@bsd.hu> > # > # $FreeBSD: ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile,v 1.10 2002/02/11 13:15:14 > ijliao Exp $ > # > > PORTNAME= mysql++ > PORTVERSION= 1.7.9 > CATEGORIES= databases devel As if anyone cares, # ports collection makefile for: MySQL++ # Date created: 20th July 2000 # Whom: Miklos Niedermayer <mico@bsd.hu> # # $FreeBSD: ports/databases/mysql++/Makefile,v 1.10 2002/02/11 13:15:14 ijliao Exp $ # PORTNAME= mysql++ PORTVERSION= 1.7.9 CATEGORIES= databases devel MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/MySQL/Downloads/mysql++/ \ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/db/mysql/Downloads/mysql++/ \ ftp://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/mirrors/mysql/Downloads/mysql++/ MAINTAINER= mico@bsd.hu LIB_DEPENDS= mysqlclient.10:${PORTSDIR}/databases/mysql323-client ^^ It's those two characters, 0x5453, at an offset of 0x200 bytes that causes the match. Gotta love file(1). -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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