The magic file now lives in /usr/share/misc.
Closes PR# 3187. Submitted by: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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.TH FILE 1 "Copyright but distributable"
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.\" $Id: file.1,v 1.1.1.4 1997/03/18 17:58:59 mpp Exp $
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.\" $Id: file.1,v 1.9 1997/03/18 19:37:17 mpp Exp $
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.SH NAME
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file \- determine file type
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ meaning anything else (data is usually `binary' or non-printable).
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Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives)
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that are known to contain binary data.
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When modifying the file
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.I /etc/magic
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.I /usr/share/misc/magic
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or the program itself,
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.B "preserve these keywords" .
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People depend on knowing that all the readable files in a directory
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@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The concept of `magic number' has been applied by extension to data files.
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Any file with some invariant identifier at a small fixed
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offset into the file can usually be described in this way.
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The information in these files is read from the magic file
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.I /etc/magic.
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.I /usr/share/misc/magic.
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.PP
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If an argument appears to be an
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.SM ASCII
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.BR ls (1).
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(on systems that support symbolic links).
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.SH FILES
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.I /usr/share/misc/magic
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\- default list of magic numbers (used to be
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.I /etc/magic
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\- default list of magic numbers
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in previous versions of FreeBSD)
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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The environment variable
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.B MAGIC
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command uses a magic file,
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keep the old magic file around for comparison purposes
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(rename it to
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.IR /etc/magic.orig ).
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.IR /usr/share/misc/magic.orig ).
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.SH HISTORY
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There has been a
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.B file
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