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How long is long for the Unix 'file' command?

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Mar 15, 20264593 views
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Problem

When you pass a text file to the Unix command, it might tell you something like: Can somebody tell me the minimum number of characters a line must contain to be considered very long? The man pages don't say anything about this and I don't want to search the source code. If someone can tell me how t…

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input.txt: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with very long lines

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From in the file source package on Ubuntu: Seems like a line needs to be more than 300 characters to be considered "very long".

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