magicsort can't work properly

[eribertomota]

The current data output by modern file(1) command can be very large. As example, see some directories created by magicsort:

# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root       4096 nov 28 21:29 'JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, aspect ratio, density 72x72, segment length 16, Exif Standard: [TIFF image data, big-endian, direntries=4, orientation=upper-left, xresolution=62, yresolution=70], progressive, precision 8, 1440x1080, frames 3'
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root       4096 nov 28 21:29 'PNG image data, 1697 x 2400, 8-bit_color RGBA, non-interlaced'
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root       4096 nov 28 21:29 'PNG image data, 765 x 812, 8-bit_color RGBA, non-interlaced'
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root       4096 nov 28 21:29 'PNG image data, 960 x 600, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced'

The Debian bug #610158, available here[1], tells magicsort command sometimes gives errors saying "cannot remove : no such file or directory."

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610158

Thanks,

Eriberto

[jbj]

I can see this would happen if magicsort is used on a Windows file system such as FAT, where file names must be short and can't contain quotes and certain other characters. It's also sensible to truncate the output from file to a reasonable length in any case.

[eribertomota]

Do you intent to fix it?

Thanks for your nice work.

[jbj]

I have no plans to fix this myself. Contributions will be gratefully considered.