Well it's a good thing you didn't show us the contents of line 271 of your /usr/share/file/magic.mime file. Otherwise we might have a clue to the problem. We wouldn't want that, would we?

On a more serious note, I briefly looked over my local /usr/share/file/magic.mime file and didn't see anything particularly different in the region of line 271, but at line 303 in mine, I have the line: 

#0  regex       BEGIN[[:space:]]*[{]    application/x-awk

[download]

and at line 640:

0   regex       [Cc]onstant[[:space:]]+[Ss]tory text/x-inform

[download]

Those are the only two lines mentioning 'regex' in my file. Perhaps you could make a copy of your file and remove the regex lines and see if it works?

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re^3: Problem with uploaded (http) files with File::MMagic by roboticus
in thread Problem with uploaded (http) files with File::MMagic by Anonymous Monk

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