"file -i" command may display the mime type of gzip files as "application/octet-stream" instead of "application/x-gzip"
Issue
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The
file -i
command displays the mime type of a specific gzip file as application/octet-stream instead of application/x-gzip$ file -i filename filename: application/octet-stream; charset=binary
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The
file
command displays the file information as Sun disk label instead of gzip compressed data$ file filename filename: Sun disk label '\037\010\036QrU\323`\312\013X\254+j-r\227]Z\222d\021\235\375\242\032q\352q\322-\320y0\232\206e?\371\310\375\3353s\356.\351m\200\310\315s\317s\346|\263v:)!\2047\357 23643 alts/cyl, 6963 interleave, 25077 data cyls, 21069 alt cyls, 32750 heads/partition, 1617887563 blocks
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7
- file
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