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| author | mpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-04-04 02:41:01 +0000 |
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| committer | mpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-04-04 02:41:01 +0000 |
| commit | 50fe179bc7b91bc29047284d0ee6bac4d5caea1f (patch) | |
| tree | 0a1f5b327468a8dea123483d712ebe47a23a6c16 /usr.bin/file | |
| parent | c6b131679d3786f27f4ce2748c39ecc3bb8795e3 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-50fe179bc7b91bc29047284d0ee6bac4d5caea1f.zip FreeBSD-src-50fe179bc7b91bc29047284d0ee6bac4d5caea1f.tar.gz | |
The magic file now lives in /usr/share/misc.
Closes PR# 3187.
Submitted by: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/file')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/file/file.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/file/file.1 b/usr.bin/file/file.1 index 999d9e1..ba28b3f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/file/file.1 +++ b/usr.bin/file/file.1 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .TH FILE 1 "Copyright but distributable" -.\" $Id: file.1,v 1.1.1.4 1997/03/18 17:58:59 mpp Exp $ +.\" $Id: file.1,v 1.9 1997/03/18 19:37:17 mpp Exp $ .SH NAME file \- determine file type .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ meaning anything else (data is usually `binary' or non-printable). Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives) that are known to contain binary data. When modifying the file -.I /etc/magic +.I /usr/share/misc/magic or the program itself, .B "preserve these keywords" . People depend on knowing that all the readable files in a directory @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The concept of `magic number' has been applied by extension to data files. Any file with some invariant identifier at a small fixed offset into the file can usually be described in this way. The information in these files is read from the magic file -.I /etc/magic. +.I /usr/share/misc/magic. .PP If an argument appears to be an .SM ASCII @@ -135,8 +135,10 @@ option causes symlinks to be followed, as the like-named option in .BR ls (1). (on systems that support symbolic links). .SH FILES +.I /usr/share/misc/magic +\- default list of magic numbers (used to be .I /etc/magic -\- default list of magic numbers +in previous versions of FreeBSD) .SH ENVIRONMENT The environment variable .B MAGIC @@ -201,7 +203,7 @@ If your old command uses a magic file, keep the old magic file around for comparison purposes (rename it to -.IR /etc/magic.orig ). +.IR /usr/share/misc/magic.orig ). .SH HISTORY There has been a .B file |
