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0000688fileGeneralpublic2025-10-23 09:41
Reporterea9dtx Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Platformx86_64OSArch LinuxOS Version6.17.4-arch2-1
Product Version5.46 
Summary0000688: plain text file incorrectly detected as ruby script
DescriptionThe following file is a plain text file.
It is not a script.
File says it is a ruby script.
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Scribunto/+/b677d96aa1c147f9ae156ab09387d48ecf3b5c84/includes/Engines/LuaCommon/lualib/luabit/readme.txt>
Steps To Reproduce$ file -v

file-5.46
magic file from /usr/share/file/misc/magic
seccomp support included

$ curl -s https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Scribunto/+/b677d96aa1c147f9ae156ab09387d48ecf3b5c84/includes/Engines/LuaCommon/lualib/luabit/readme.txt?format=TEXT | base64 -d | file -b -

Ruby script, ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

$ curl -s https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Scribunto/+/b677d96aa1c147f9ae156ab09387d48ecf3b5c84/includes/Engines/LuaCommon/lualib/luabit/readme.txt?format=TEXT | base64 -d | file -bi -

text/x-ruby; charset=us-ascii

Tagsmagic

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2025-10-23 09:41

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readme.txt.gz (1,960 bytes)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-10-23 09:41 ea9dtx New Issue
2025-10-23 09:41 ea9dtx Tag Attached: magic
2025-10-23 09:41 ea9dtx File Added: readme.txt.gz