[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #569: omindex man page -F text misleading

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#569: omindex man page -F text misleading
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 Reporter:  catkin  |       Owner:  olly 
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:       
Component:  Omega   |     Version:  1.2.5
 Severity:  normal  |   Blockedby:       
 Platform:  All     |    Blocking:       
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 From the omindex man page:

 -F, --filter=TYPE:CMD
     process files with MIME Content-Type TYPE using command CMD, which
 should produce UTF-8 text on stdout e.g. -Fapplica‐tion/octet-
 stream:'strings -n8

 This could be understood to mean that omindex examines files to determine
 their MIME type (I understood it that way) but from Olly's posting,
 subject "Re: [Xapian-discuss] Tika 0.8 failure rates", date 5oct11:

 By default, omindex currently uses a list of extension->MIME
 content-type mappings, and only consults the magic library for
 extensions it doesn't know.  So any file with a .doc extension will be
 considered as application/msword (unless you run omindex with
 '--mime-type=doc:').

 A note about this could be added to the omindex man page and referenced
 from the -F and -M options descriptions.

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