siegfried
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Allow siegfried to follow symlinks
Right now, siegfried refuses to scan symbolic links with an error message file is of type symlink; only regular files can be scanned
:
mmoser@mx ~ $ ll stderr.log
Permissions Size User Group Date Modified Name
lrwxrwxrwx - mmoser mmoser 27 Feb 13:54 stderr.log -> sf.log
mmoser@mx ~ $ ~/go/bin/sf stderr.log
[FILE] /home/mmoser/stderr.log
[ERROR] file is of type symlink; only regular files can be scanned
---
siegfried : 1.10.1
scandate : 2024-02-27T13:55:41+01:00
signature : default.sig
created : 2023-12-17T15:38:39+01:00
identifiers :
- name : 'pronom'
details : 'DROID_SignatureFile_V116.xml; container-signature-20231127.xml'
---
filename : 'stderr.log'
filesize : 6
modified : 2024-02-27T13:54:56+01:00
errors : 'file is of type symlink; only regular files can be scanned'
matches :
It would be nice to have an option (-s/-follow-symlinks
?) that makes siegfried follow the symlink to the file to analyze.