file command produces wrong message

[latimerio]

Binary package hint: file

the file command for a compressed (gzip) file says:
 ... compress'd...
The apostroph in here is completely wrong to me.
It messed up things in my output parser and it should say compressed instead of compress'd as in previous versions of ubuntu.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Could you please attach a sample file this happens with? I have tried with more compressed types, and each one was compressed as expected. Tried with .zip, .tar.gz, and tried with a gzip zipped manually with gzip.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

I have found it... it happens when trying with compressed data compressed using the compress command found in the ncompress package. Setting to Confirmed.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Diff for fixing this, changing compress'd to compressed.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

My fix is not the best one. This bug needs a better wording. Archives are described by the file utility as "gzip compressed data", "7-zip compressed data", etc. "compress'd data" stands for an abbreviation of the ugly wording "compress compressed data" (compress being the name of the app used to compress) or "compressed data compressed with compress" :) It could be "LZW compressed data" or "data compressed usin compress". Please suggest a correct wording having the same meaning as the above, and I'll do the patch.

[latimerio (fomember)]

Hello Robert,
Thank you for digging into it.
From your wording suggestions I think "'file' command gives wrong type for
data being compressed with 'compress'" describes it best.
Indeed I was trying to process a bunch of files which had been compressed
with 'compress' on HP-UX.
Because I had a large list of those files without the .Z extension I needed
to check which where compressed and which not.
Thus I used something like:
   file $Filename | grep -q "compressed" && { cat $Filename | uncompress ; }
|| cat $Filename

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Robert Roth
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Subject: [Bug 683668] Re: file command in 10.10 produces wrong message

My fix is not the best one. This bug needs a better wording. Archives are
described by the file utility as "gzip compressed data", "7-zip compressed
data", etc. "compress'd data" stands for an abbreviation of the ugly wording
"compress compressed data" (compress being the name of the app used to
compress) or "compressed data compressed with compress"
:) It could be "LZW compressed data" or "data compressed usin compress".
Please suggest a correct wording having the same meaning as the above, and
I'll do the patch.

** Tags added: patch

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Title:
  file command in 10.10 produces wrong message

Status in "file" package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: file

in 10.10 the file command for a compressed (gzip) file says:
 ... compress'd...
The apostroph in here is completely wrong to me.
It messed up things in my output parser and it should say compressed
instead of compress'd as in previous versions of ubuntu.

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[Robert Roth (evfool)]

@latimerio: the description you have given (data being compressed with 'compress')
1. is in a continuous tense, which is not the best thing (although I'm not a native English speaker), and contains the word compress twice... if we tolerate that, we could say "data compressed with 'compress'"
2. also contains the ' character, so that will still mess up your output parser, I think

[latimerio (fomember)]

@Robert:
So I suggest: the "file" command gives wrong type for data compressed with
"compress"

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Robert Roth
Sent: Freitag, 3. Dezember 2010 09:17
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 683668] Re: file command in 10.10 produces wrong message

@latimerio: the description you have given (data being compressed with
'compress') 1. is in a continuous tense, which is not the best thing
(although I'm not a native English speaker), and contains the word compress
twice... if we tolerate that, we could say "data compressed with 'compress'"
2. also contains the ' character, so that will still mess up your output
parser, I think

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Title:
  file command in 10.10 produces wrong message

Status in "file" package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: file

in 10.10 the file command for a compressed (gzip) file says:
 ... compress'd...
The apostroph in here is completely wrong to me.
It messed up things in my output parser and it should say compressed
instead of compress'd as in previous versions of ubuntu.

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[Daniel Polehn (dpolehn-gmail)]

This bug hasn't been touched in a year. is it still a problem?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Yes, it still happens. To see it:
sudo apt-get install ncompress
compress FILENAME (any file will do it) -> this will create a FILENAME.Z file
file FILENAME.Z
See the result:FILENAME.Z: compress'd data 16 bits

[Pedro Muñoz del Rio (pmunoz-h)]

Hi!

I have solved the bug, the diff is attached.

[Alexandru Cucu (alexandru.cucu)]

There is no typo as the file is compressed using the "compress" tool.
Attached is my patch proposal.