From a703a8478665496db20170e78b8f7b1b43e69a86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ru Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:46:55 +0000 Subject: Remove hard-sentence breaks, canonify .Dd (no leading zero). --- usr.bin/file/file.1 | 17 ++++++++++------- usr.bin/file/magic.5 | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'usr.bin/file') diff --git a/usr.bin/file/file.1 b/usr.bin/file/file.1 index 16154fe..99d6211 100644 --- a/usr.bin/file/file.1 +++ b/usr.bin/file/file.1 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ -.Dd December 08, 2000 +.Dd December 8, 2000 .Dt FILE 1 "Copyright but distributable" .Os .Sh NAME @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Either .Ar namefile or at least one filename argument must be present; to test the standard input, use -.Dq - +.Dq Ar - as a filename argument. .It Fl i Causes the file command to output mime type strings rather than the @@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ In order for this option to work, file changes the way it handles files recognised by the command itself (such as many of the text file types, directories etc), and makes use of an alternative .Dq Pa magic -file. (See +file. +(See .Sx FILES section, below). .It Fl k @@ -201,7 +202,8 @@ the type of argument files which .Xr stat 2 reports are ordinary files. This prevents problems, because reading special files -may have peculiar consequences. Specifying the +may have peculiar consequences. +Specifying the .Fl s option causes file to also read argument files which are block or character special files. @@ -238,7 +240,6 @@ can be used to set the default magic number files. .Xr od 1 , .Xr strings 1 , .Xr magic 5 - .Sh STANDARDS CONFORMANCE This program is believed to exceed the System V Interface Definition of FILE(CMD), as near as one can determine from the vague language @@ -419,7 +420,8 @@ There should be an clause to follow a series of continuation lines. .Pp The magic file and keywords should have regular expression -support. Their use of ASCII TAB as a field delimiter is +support. +Their use of ASCII TAB as a field delimiter is ugly and makes it hard to edit the files, but is entrenched. .Pp @@ -443,7 +445,8 @@ This could be done by using some keyword like Another optimisation would be to sort the magic file so that we can just run down all the tests for the first byte, first word, first long, etc, once we have fetched -it. Complain about conflicts in the magic file entries. +it. +Complain about conflicts in the magic file entries. Make a rule that the magic entries sort based on file offset rather than position within the magic file? .Pp diff --git a/usr.bin/file/magic.5 b/usr.bin/file/magic.5 index 3b88eac..cf6b02e 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 December 08, 2000 +.Dd December 8, 2000 .Dt MAGIC 5 "Public Domain" .Os .Sh NAME @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ This manual page documents the format of the magic file as used by the .Nm -command, version 3.33. The +command, version 3.33. +The .Nm file command identifies the type of a file using, among other tests, @@ -48,7 +49,8 @@ A four-byte value (on most systems) in this machine's native byte order. .It string A string of bytes. The string type specification can be optionally followed -by /[Bbc]*. The +by /[Bbc]*. +The .Dq B flag compacts whitespace in the target, which must contain at least one whitespace character. -- cgit v1.1