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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:52:55 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>
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Subject: Re: file broken
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 05:43:14PM -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote:

wb ~: file /bin/sh
/bin/sh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
statically linked, stripped
wb ~: uname -a
FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sun Dec  2
00:40:05 CET 2001     wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEBIE
i386
wb ~: 

And:
wb ~: type file
file is hashed (/usr/bin/file)


So: ??

> Just discovered the utility /usr/share/misc/file is either broken or has
> changed behavior.  Now, in order to determine what a file is, I must
> append the -i switch.  Did I miss or mess something up in the upgrade
> from 4.3-R to 4.4-Stable?
> 
> Sam
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