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I'm trying to send a bug report for the app file, /usr/bin/file

But consulting the man and sending an email

BUGS Please report bugs and send patches to the bug tracker at http://bugs.gw.com/ or the mailing list at ⟨[email protected]⟩ (visit http://mx.gw.com/mailman/listinfo/file first to subscribe).

Made me find out the mail address does not exist.

Is there another way of communicating to the community? Hopefully this here question is already part of it :)

So here's my email:

possible feauture failure: the --extension option doesn't seem to ouput anything

file --extension "ab.gif" ab.gif: ??? 

It would be useful to easily be able to use the ouput of this to rename a file to its correct extension.

something like file --likely_extension would only ouput the likely detected extension or an error if the detection was too low

like thus:

file --likely_extension "ab.gif" gif 

better tho would be a --correct_extension option:

file --correct_extension "ab.jpg" ls ab.gif 

Tyvm for this app :)

I'm trying to send a bug report for the app file, /usr/bin/file

But consulting the man and sending an email

BUGS Please report bugs and send patches to the bug tracker at http://bugs.gw.com/ or the mailing list at ⟨[email protected]⟩ (visit http://mx.gw.com/mailman/listinfo/file first to subscribe).

Made me find out the mail address does not exist.

Is there another way of communicating to the community? Hopefully this here question is already part of it :)

So here's my email:

possible feature failure: the --extension option doesn't seem to output anything

$ file --extension "ab.gif" ab.gif: ??? 

It would be useful to easily be able to use the output of this to rename a file to its correct extension.

something like file --likely_extension would only output the likely detected extension or an error if the detection was too low

like thus:

$ file --likely_extension "ab.gif" gif 

better though would be a --correct_extension option:

$ file --correct_extension "ab.jpg" $ ls ab.gif 

Tyvm for this app :)

I'm trying to send a bug report for the app file, /usr/bin/file

But consulting the man and sending an email

BUGS Please report bugs and send patches to the bug tracker at http://bugs.gw.com/ or the mailing list at ⟨[email protected]⟩ (visit http://mx.gw.com/mailman/listinfo/file first to subscribe).

Made me find out the mail address does not exist.

Is there another way of communicating to the community? Hopefully this here question is already part of it :)

So here's my email:

possible feauture failure: the --extension option doesn't seem to ouput anything

file --extension "ab.gif" ab.gif: ??? 

It would be useful to easily be able to use the ouput of this to rename a file to its correct extension.

something like file --likely_extension would only ouput the likely detected extension or an error if the detection was too low

like thus:

file --likely_extension "ab.gif" gif 

better tho would be a --correct_extension option:

file --correct_extension "ab.jpg" ls ab.gif 

Tyvm for this app :)

I'm trying to send a bug report for the app file, /usr/bin/file

But consulting the man and sending an email

BUGS Please report bugs and send patches to the bug tracker at http://bugs.gw.com/ or the mailing list at ⟨[email protected]⟩ (visit http://mx.gw.com/mailman/listinfo/file first to subscribe).

Made me find out the mail address does not exist.

Is there another way of communicating to the community? Hopefully this here question is already part of it :)

So here's my email:

possible feauture failure: the --extension option doesn't seem to ouput anything

file --extension "ab.gif" ab.gif: ??? 

It would be useful to easily be able to use the ouput of this to rename a file to its correct extension.

something like file --likely_extension would only ouput the likely detected extension or an error if the detection was too low

like thus:

file --likely_extension "ab.gif" gif 

better tho would be a --correct_extension option:

file --correct_extension "ab.jpg" ls ab.gif 

Tyvm for this app :)