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Bug#1071961: mailcap: run-mailcap doesn't properly identifies magic types

From Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1071961: mailcap: run-mailcap doesn't properly identifies magic types
Date 2024-05-27 04:40 +0200
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Le Sun, May 26, 2024 at 05:35:28PM +0300, Yair Yarom a écrit :
> 
> The function MagicMimetype always fails because the `command -v file` isn't
> executed inside a shell (rather, perl searches for the "command" binary, and
> fails to find it).

Thanks Yair for the patch.  I confirm it works.

Can you give me a longer explanation why it works?

In any case, I wonder if just searching for /usr/bin/file would make
more sense.  What do you think about it?

Have a nice day,

Charles

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Bug#1071961: mailcap: run-mailcap doesn't properly identifies magic types Yair Yarom <irush@cs.huji.ac.il> - 2024-05-26 16:50 +0200
  Bug#1071961: mailcap: run-mailcap doesn't properly identifies magic types Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2024-05-27 04:40 +0200
    Bug#1071961: mailcap: run-mailcap doesn't properly identifies magic types Yair Yarom <irush@cs.huji.ac.il> - 2024-05-27 15:50 +0200

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