Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:36:30 +0200
Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:

> Hi Celejar.
> 
> Celejar, 06.07.2007 02:25:
> > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:20:19 +0200
> > Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:
> >> Celejar, 05.07.2007 21:35:
> >>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200
> >>> Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:
> >>>> Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18:
> >>>>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200
> >>>>> Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:
> >>>>>> Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40:
> >>>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383409
> > 
> > […]  What I meant was that even before
> > the fixes, the messages in the report indicated that file was reporting
> > zip, and their problem was that they wanted file to report ODT.  My
> > problem is that file doesn't even seem to realize that it's looking at
> > a zip archive.
> 
> Ah yes. Took me a while to figure it out: the solution is the -i option which
> outputs the MIME type instead of a generic description:
> 
> > $ file -i foo.odt 
> > foo.odt: application/x-zip

Thanks! I should have been reading more carefully ...

> Regards, Mathias

Celejar
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