On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 03:28:56PM -0400, Ross Singer wrote:
> Wow, this is pretty cool.
> 
> Kevin, do you have examples of the output?
> 
> Does it work for bulk files?
> 
> I mean, I could just try this on my Ubuntu machine, but it's all the way downstairs...

My OS lists it as `data`

$ cd
$ ls
dev        id_rsa.pub laflin     marc       orthanc    ssh
updating
$ ftp http://drupal.org/files/issues/5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt
Trying 140.211.166.6...
Requesting http://drupal.org/files/issues/5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt
100%
|**************************************************************************************************************************************************|
5965       00:00    
5965 bytes received in 0.00 seconds (1.56 MB/s)
$ ls
5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt  id_rsa.pub               marc
ssh
dev                      laflin                   orthanc
updating
$ mkdir test
$ mv 5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt test/                                                                                                                                             
$ cd test/                                                                                                                                                                     
$ mv 5_records_utf8.mrc_.txt 5_records_utf8.mrc                                                                                                                                
$ ls
5_records_utf8.mrc
$ file 5_records_utf8.mrc                                                                                                                                                      
5_records_utf8.mrc: data
$ ls
5_records_utf8.mrc
$ ls -al
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   2 kayiwa  kayiwa   512 May 23 14:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 kayiwa  kayiwa   512 May 23 14:34 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 kayiwa  kayiwa  5965 May 23 14:33 5_records_utf8.mrc
$ uname -a
OpenBSD orthanc.lib.uic.edu 5.1 GENERIC.MP#256 i386

./fxk

> 
> -Ross.
> 
> On May 23, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Ford, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > I finally had occasion today (read: remembered) to see if the *nix "file" command would recognize a MARC record file.  I haven't tested extensively, but it did identify the file as MARC21 Bibliographic record.  It also correctly identified a MARC21 Authority Record.  I'm running the most recent version of Ubuntu (12.04 - precise pangolin).
> > 
> > I write because the inclusion of a "file" MARC21 specification rule in the magic.db stems from a Code4lib exchange that started in March 2011 [1] (it ends in April if you want to go crawling for the entire thread).
> > 
> > Rgds,
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> > [1] https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1103&L=CODE4LIB&T=0&F=&S=&P=112728
> > 
> > --
> > Kevin Ford
> > Network Development and MARC Standards Office
> > Library of Congress
> > Washington, DC
> 

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