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| author | Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de> | 2011-05-03 08:15:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> | 2011-05-04 12:23:57 +0200 |
| commit | 84cf020faa514938f4d87ba659013cf11b0dc4f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6849f1a6816cd3430354ce287fb864c59daf256b /rules/file.in | |
| parent | e69206eb6237d3e6a823c46a3218d0ece0e94ad0 (diff) | |
| download | ptxdist-84cf020faa514938f4d87ba659013cf11b0dc4f4.tar.gz ptxdist-84cf020faa514938f4d87ba659013cf11b0dc4f4.tar.xz | |
add utility 'file' for determining file types
Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <post@lespocky.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/rules/file.in b/rules/file.in new file mode 100644 index 000000000..902b9615f --- /dev/null +++ b/rules/file.in @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +## SECTION=shell_and_console + +config FILE + tristate + select HOST_FILE + prompt "file" + help + The file command is "a file type guesser", that is, a command-line tool + that tells you in words what kind of data a file contains. Unlike most + GUI systems, command-line UNIX systems - with this program leading the + charge - don't rely on filename extentions to tell you the type of a + file, but look at the file's actual contents. This is, of course, more + reliable, but requires a bit of I/O. + + http://www.darwinsys.com/file/ |