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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000377 | file | General | public | 2022-08-23 15:49 | 2022-10-09 18:52 |
| Reporter | standage | Assigned To | christos | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0000377: Support TSV detection | ||||
| Description | It is very convenient that file and libmagic now support detection of CSV files. Files separated by tabs instead of commas are also very common. In fact, it's the de facto standard that UNIX shell tools use for pipeline compatibility: sort, cut, paste, and so on. In any case, being able to distinguish TSV files (mime type: text/tab-separated-values) from other unstructured ASCII text files would be a very useful feature. I hope it wouldn't be too difficult to extend the existing CSV support to support TSV. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | $ file some.csv some.csv: CSV text $ file some.tsv some.tsv: ASCII text | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
