On May 23, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Kevin Ford wrote: > Don't know what to say. Crawling through the source for "file" at [1], the > pattern matching code as in place as of Sept 2011. It could be present > earlier than Sept 2011, but I stopped hunting for it. The earliest it would > have made its way into the magic db would have been April 2011. > > Perhaps OpenBSD is using some custom branch of "file", haven't updated the > db, etc.
As Stuart pointed out, some implementations are slow to update the db. OSX, for example, also just says "data" (hence my question on the output). -Ross. > > Yours, > > Kevin > > > > On 05/23/2012 03:36 PM, Francis Kayiwa wrote: >> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 03:28:56PM -0400, Ross Singer wrote: >>> Wow, this is pretty cool. >>> >>> Kevin, do you have examples of the output? >>> >>> Does it work for bulk files? >>> >>> I mean, I could just try this on my Ubuntu machine, but it's all the way >>> downstairs... >> >> My OS lists it as `data` >> >> $ cd >> $ ls >> dev id_rsa.pub laflin marc orthanc ssh >> updating >> $ ftp http://drupal.org/files/issues/5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt >> Trying 140.211.166.6... >> Requesting http://drupal.org/files/issues/5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt >> 100% >> |**************************************************************************************************************************************************| >> 5965 00:00 >> 5965 bytes received in 0.00 seconds (1.56 MB/s) >> $ ls >> 5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt id_rsa.pub marc >> ssh >> dev laflin orthanc >> updating >> $ mkdir test >> $ mv 5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt test/ >> $ cd test/ >> $ mv 5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt 5_records_utf8.mrc >> $ ls >> 5_records_utf8.mrc >> $ file 5_records_utf8.mrc >> 5_records_utf8.mrc: data >> $ ls >> 5_records_utf8.mrc >> $ ls -al >> total 32 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 kayiwa kayiwa 512 May 23 14:34 . >> drwxr-xr-x 10 kayiwa kayiwa 512 May 23 14:34 .. >> -rw-r--r-- 1 kayiwa kayiwa 5965 May 23 14:33 5_records_utf8.mrc >> $ uname -a >> OpenBSD orthanc.lib.uic.edu 5.1 GENERIC.MP#256 i386 >> >> ./fxk >> >>> >>> -Ross. >>> >>> On May 23, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Ford, Kevin wrote: >>> >>>> I finally had occasion today (read: remembered) to see if the *nix "file" >>>> command would recognize a MARC record file. I haven't tested extensively, >>>> but it did identify the file as MARC21 Bibliographic record. It also >>>> correctly identified a MARC21 Authority Record. I'm running the most >>>> recent version of Ubuntu (12.04 - precise pangolin). >>>> >>>> I write because the inclusion of a "file" MARC21 specification rule in the >>>> magic.db stems from a Code4lib exchange that started in March 2011 [1] (it >>>> ends in April if you want to go crawling for the entire thread). >>>> >>>> Rgds, >>>> >>>> Kevin >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1103&L=CODE4LIB&T=0&F=&S=&P=112728 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kevin Ford >>>> Network Development and MARC Standards Office >>>> Library of Congress >>>> Washington, DC >>> >>
