File

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing File-4.04 in Chapter 6.

Official Download Location

File (4.04): 
ftp://ftp.gw.com/mirrors/pub/unix/file/

Contents of File

(Last checked against version 3.39.)

File is a utility used to determine file types.

File installs the following:

Descriptions

(Last checked against version 3.39.)

Program file descriptions

file tries to classify each given file. It does this by performing several tests: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds determines the result.

File Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 3.37.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: cat, chmod, echo, expr, hostname, install, ln, ls, mv, rm,
             sleep, touch, tr
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: makeinfo