tar file not being recognized
marcosnils opened this issue Β· comments
π filetype happy user here! Today someone opened an issue in my bin
project (marcosnils/bin#140) which led me here.
Filetype
is not being able to detect the tar
archive inside this gzipped
file here https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases/download/1.52.3/dart-sass-1.52.3-linux-x64.tar.gz. However, tar -xf works and running file <dart-sass-1.52.3-linux-x64.tar>
correctly detects the filetype.
Clearly seems like the file MIME headers are not being properly set. Still.. it's interesting how file
still detects it as a tar
archive even if the extension is removed.
file -i pepe
pepe: application/x-tar; charset=binary
Any pointers here?
I see it's coming from here: https://sources.debian.org/src/file/1%3A5.39-3/src/funcs.c/#L296
Seems like file
still tries to parse the file regardless if the MIME headers are found or not... I think I'll change bin
to do a similar approach instead of just relying on MIME headers.