The art of file type identification
Monday, April 28th, 2008Recently I’ve been working with maintainer of file(1) to merge in various file magic identification floating around on internet. Though I can’t say this is exciting experience (’boring’ is the better word to use, involving searching for spec everywhere and searching for files to test, except when many proprietary formats are undocumented), such ongoing work allowed me to more firmly grasp how things can improve.

