broken /usr/bin/file behaviour

[Peter Bonivart]

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Greg Matthews wrote:
> Whoever wrote libmagic seems to be a fan of the BBC comedy "Are you
> being served?"
> 
> create an ascii file that begins:
> I'm free
> 
> and then run /usr/bin/file against it. It is reported as:
> Apple QuickTime movie file (free)

Works fine in Solaris:

root at kleenex[root]# more texttest
I'm free
root at kleenex[root]# file texttest
texttest:       ascii text
root at kleenex[root]# uname -a
SunOS kleenex 5.9 Generic_118558-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210

-- 
/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

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