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#1 2014-06-02 18:46:02

89c51
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Mirrorlist file type.

Kind of a weird and non important question but here goes.


Why the mirrorlist file is of type text/x-matlab????

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#2 2014-06-02 20:43:17

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Re: Mirrorlist file type.

I'm not getting this when I open up the Properties from right-click in Cinnamon or MATE.


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#3 2014-06-02 20:57:45

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Re: Mirrorlist file type.

$ file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist 
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: ASCII text
$ file --mime-type /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist 
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: text/plain

But I don't use the default.  Where do you get the data that it is that type?

EDIT: I just re-extracted the default mirrorlist from the pacman-mirrorlist package, and I get the same results as I just posted for my generated one.

Of course I also don't have matlab installed, so maybe matlab registers something as it's 'type'.

Last edited by Trilby (2014-06-02 21:01:41)


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#4 2014-06-02 21:22:20

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Re: Mirrorlist file type.

When I look at "properties" via thunar it shows as "Kind: MATLAB script/function"... hmm
EDIT:

empty@Arch ~ % pacman -Q matlab
error: package 'matlab' was not found
1 empty@Arch ~ % pacman -Ss matlab                                                                                                                          :(
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#5 2014-06-03 06:13:08

x33a
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Re: Mirrorlist file type.

@ 89c51, I assume that you are using

mimetype

, part of the perl-file-mimeinfo package.

I can confirm that it shows a similar output in my case. But

file

shows it as "ASCII text".

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#6 2014-06-03 12:44:20

89c51
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Re: Mirrorlist file type.

I get this when from Right Click>File Properties in Enlightenment File manager. In the file type field. It uses mimetype probably.

It was just weird. I have nothing matlab related on the computer.

I was expecting it to be text/plain or something.

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#7 2014-06-04 10:29:14

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Re: Mirrorlist file type.

$ mimetype -a /etxc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
mirrorlist: text/x-matlab
mirrorlist: text/plain
$
$ mimetype -D /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
> Data dirs are: /home/panoramix/.local/share, /usr/local/share, /usr/share
> Checking inode type
> Checking globs for basename 'mirrorlist'
> Value "##" at offset 2 matches at /usr/share/mime/magic line 1449
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: text/x-matlab
$

Looks like the starting ## causes this.


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#8 2014-06-04 12:30:15

x33a
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Re: Mirrorlist file type.

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Looks like the starting ## causes this.

Wow, thanks. I didn't know about the -D flag.

Indeed, it's the double hash sign which causes mime and probably the other GUI filemanagers as well, to recognise the file as

text/x-matlab

If I change the double hash to a single hash, I get

$ mimetype /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: text/plain

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