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we now ask 'file' to follow symlinks. The analysis results are kept in the folder with the symlink, not where it points to
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That is pretty useful. Thank you!
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we now ask 'file' to follow symlinks. The analysis results are kept in the folder with the symlink, not where it points to.
Without this, if you pass chkx a symlink to a binary it will error out with: