diff --git a/chb/cmdline/XInfo.py b/chb/cmdline/XInfo.py
index 2d383365..6b84623b 100644
--- a/chb/cmdline/XInfo.py
+++ b/chb/cmdline/XInfo.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
 
     def discover(self, path: str, xfile: str) -> None:
         name = os.path.join(path, xfile)
-        ftype = subprocess.run(["file", name], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        ftype = subprocess.run(["file", "-L", name], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
         filetype = ftype.stdout.decode("utf-8")
         self.fileinfo["md5"] = get_md5(name)
         self.fileinfo["path"] = path