[File] Misdetection of shell

[Christos Zoulas]

I guess we can add the extra entries...

christos

> On Feb 11, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to report a simple issue which may become bigger over time. Fedora,
> RHEL, Centos, and probably more Linux distributions have changed so that /bin
> and /sbin are symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin respectively. I found this
> today:
> 
> # file --mime-type /usr/libexec/grepconf.sh
> /usr/libexec/grepconf.sh: text/plain
> 
> # /usr/bin/head -n 1  /usr/libexec/grepconf.sh
> #!/usr/bin/sh
> 
> That should really be detected as text/x-shellscript.
> 
> I know people are not supposed to do that, but they are. I have 345 scripts
> in /usr/bin, 40 in /usr/sbin, and 73 in /usr/libexec that call the shell by /
> usr/bin/sh. So, it looks like there's a bunch of scripts doing this.
> 
> Best Regards,
> -Steve
> 
> 
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