<div class="gmail_quote">Hello XDG people, I've discovered some files which were not recognized by xdg-mime unless they have a correct extension; after filing a bug against shared-mime-info I wondered if I have any other files that are not recognized and how can I check that. I wrote a shell script for automatic testing, and it worked pretty well: after feeding at about 150,000 files to it I've discovered five more unrecognized file groups and reported bugs about them. I'm now sharing the script to simplify large-scale testing of shared-mime-info database, you can find it attached to this email. I hope this will help improve shared-mime-info database. The script accepts only one parameter: the directory in which to look for files. The directory will be walked recursively. The script works by hardlinking* the files into a temporary directory without extensions and comparing xdg-mime output for both files. If the mimetype becomes "application/octet-stream", it considers the file unrecognized and outputs its name and original mimetype to a file; if the mimetype changes but has no "octet-stream" in it, it considers the mimetype incompletely detected and writes out the file name to another file along with the normal and magic-based mimetypes as reported by xdg-mime. *xdg-mime is clever - it follows symlinks and uses the name of the actual file for matching, so I had to use hard links instead of symbolic. Cheers, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff P.S. I'm re-sending this message because it got bounced while I was not subscribed to the list. Sorry if you receive a duplicate eventually. </div>