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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-12-28 12:29:06 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-12-28 12:29:06 +0000
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Update for FILE v4.12.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/file/magic.515
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/file/magic.5 b/usr.bin/file/magic.5
index f1c7124..9d5bd04 100644
--- a/usr.bin/file/magic.5
+++ b/usr.bin/file/magic.5
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\"
.\" install as magic.4 on USG, magic.5 on V7 or Berkeley systems.
.\"
-.Dd February 27, 2003
+.Dd September 12, 2003
.Dt MAGIC 5 "Public Domain"
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
This manual page documents the format of the magic file as
used by the
.Nm
-command, version 3.41.
+command, version 4.12.
The
.Nm file
command identifies the type of a file using,
@@ -54,8 +54,11 @@ The
.Dq B
flag compacts whitespace in the target, which must contain
at least one whitespace character.
-If the magic has "n" consecutive blanks, the target needs
-at least "n" consecutive blanks to match.
+If the magic has
+.Ar n
+consecutive blanks, the target needs at least
+.Ar n
+consecutive blanks to match.
The
.Dq b
flag treats every blank in the target as an optional blank.
@@ -207,7 +210,7 @@ the file.
The value at that offset is read, and is used again as an offset
in the file.
Indirect offsets are of the form:
-.Em (x[.[bslBSL]][+-][y]) .
+.Em (x[.[bslBSL]][+\-][y]) .
The value of
.Em x
is used as an offset in the file.
@@ -266,4 +269,4 @@ indirect offsets.
.\" the changes I posted to the S5R2 version.
.\"
.\" Modified for Ian Darwin's version of the file command.
-.\" @(#)$Id: magic.man,v 1.21 2003/02/27 20:47:46 christos Exp $
+.\" @(#)$Id: magic.man,v 1.27 2003/09/12 19:43:30 christos Exp $
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