On 02/06/2011 06:27 PM, Lisi wrote:
I need to find out:
a)What the magic number should be for certain types of file and
b)Whether a specific file of that type has the correct magic number.
Here is my one, so far futile, effort - in addition to googling until I can
see magic numbered smoke coming out of my ears. :-(
lisi@Tux:~$ cat /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc | grep gzip
Binary file (standard input) matches
lisi@Tux:~$
I realise that this is more specific to UNIX than specific to Debian - but it
applies to all the UNIX family, and Debian is part of that family. ;-)
That's a binary file, it won't help you much.
See the corresponding source package, you should find the same
information in that file in a more readable way.
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