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Actually the user was able to solve it because it was in a shell script. If the program had used libfile instead, there would be no easy way to edit it to chang
by hiccuphippo 7y ago
Actually the user was able to solve it because it was in a shell script. If the program had used libfile instead, there would be no easy way to edit it to change the date format other than recompiling it. They would have needed to wait until the maintainers fixed file itself.
- silon42 7y agousing file is a bad idea anyway... you can't rely on a command that performs guesswork (aka "smart"). It's been a cause of security holes in similar contexts (browsers sniffing mime type from file content/extensions)