File types in Nautilus – how to distinguish between different file types? [closed]

Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question Under file Type column in Nautilus, I get file categories like Image, Document, etc. I need … Read more

Why do tabs in YAML work some but not at all times?

We’ve used tab-characters in some of YAML-files here: host: “foo” port: 8011 p: “bar” For some reason, the same version of Ansible running the same playbook works just fine with these files for some users, but complains about “invalid characters” for others: ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML. found character ‘\t’ that cannot start any … Read more

filename extract and formatting

I have a lot of files in a folder \Testing, I’m trying to take the file name and format it inside the text file to a certain way. Example would be 111005000_10312019.pdf inside folder “Testing”. I’m trying to take that and format the name to be exactly this below without formatting the files itself. 111005000|10/31/2019|111005000_10312019.PDF … Read more

Is there a standard for this file format?

I run an Ubiquity Edge router which itself is based upon Vyatta (it does not matter, it is just in case someone knew the product). The configuration file looks like that (…) service { dhcp-server { disabled false global-parameters “option rfc3118-auth code 90 = string;” global-parameters “option SIP code 120 = string;” global-parameters “option Vendor-specific … Read more

filename extract and formatting

I have a lot of files in a folder \Testing, I’m trying to take the file name and format it inside the text file to a certain way. Example would be 111005000_10312019.pdf inside folder “Testing”. I’m trying to take that and format the name to be exactly this below without formatting the files itself. 111005000|10/31/2019|111005000_10312019.PDF … Read more

What is the right file signature?

I want to have a correct table of file signatures. I found two sites that have a big table of file signatures but when comparing those two, I saw that there was a different. For example, on this site, the 3gp file signature is listed as 66 74 79 70 33 67. On this other … Read more