[Gutsy]Looking for a program that analyzes a file and makes a "best guess" attempt to identify or provide information

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:54:19 -0500
"John Toliver" <john.toliver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at the MAN pages for this command makes me think it's probably not
> the one to try and do a script on.

I don't know how sophisticated you want to be about it, but I just put
this in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ , to see what would happen, and it
works... it appears in the nautilus right-click scripts menu , and gives
the output in a pop-up text box. Obviously, there are many other options
to "file" that could be included or scripted.

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#!/bin/bash

file -kr "$@" > /tmp/file.output

zenity --title "File Information" --text-info $FILE < /tmp/file.output

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#

Peter
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