About:
File attempts to classify files depending on their contents and prints a description if a match is found.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

Changes:
Warnings for non-supported math was added to magic handling. An experimental feature to adjust magic strength was added. Several ELF enhancements were made. Magic was updated.

Author:
Christos Zoulas [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.80/10.00 (10 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/file
Mirror site:
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/tools/file/
Demo site:
http://www.iconv.com/file.htm

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original)
[Topic]		Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	4.25	27-Jul-2008	BSD License (original)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.25	Minor feature enhancements	27-Jul-2008 06:37
4.24	Minor bugfixes	15-May-2008 11:44
4.23	Minor bugfixes	02-Feb-2008 21:21
4.21	Minor bugfixes	11-Jun-2007 11:58
4.20	Minor bugfixes	22-Mar-2007 13:27
4.19	Minor bugfixes	08-Jan-2007 12:19
4.17	Minor feature enhancements	30-Mar-2006 08:35
4.16	N/A	18-Oct-2005 08:53
4.15	Minor bugfixes	17-Oct-2005 07:46
4.14	Minor bugfixes	05-Jul-2005 11:18

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New file packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Aug 5th 2007 01:09 SuSE: New file packages fix potential code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jul 8th 2007 03:12 Debian: New file packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Apr 8th 2007 01:02 Red Hat: Updated file package fixes a security flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Mar 26th 2007 00:48

SuSE: New file packages fix remote system compromise by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Mar 21st 2003 06:05 Debian: New file package fixes buffer overflow by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Mar 14th 2003 00:12 Red Hat: Updated file packages fix vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Mar 7th 2003 08:13

 Comments

[»] Maintainer?
by Trejkaz Xaoza - Jul 12th 2004 16:33:21

I know Christos is supposed to be the maintainer and everything, but if his email bounces everything which is sent to it, how is he to be contacted?

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[»] Re: Maintainer?
by Trejkaz Xaoza - Jul 12th 2004 18:18:46

If it's not a bounce, then it's doing a good job of looking like one. (reason: 554 : Client host rejected: Access denied due to mail system abuse) I'm getting the same error from multiple mail providers on my end, so how are the other messages getting through? In any case do you have a secondary email address?

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[»] Re: Maintainer?
by Trejkaz Xaoza - Jul 12th 2004 20:09:16

The addresses I'm sending from are @xaoza.net and @nuix.com.au, but the ISPs are optusnet.com.au and iprimus.com.au (the former being probably the biggest ISP in the country,) respectively. BTW, sorry to clog up your FM comments, but since there's no other way to send messages... :-/

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