I was expecting to see those text files on my Ubuntu 14.04 but my /usr/share/file/magic directory is empty, only the mgc is populated.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015, 1:39 PM Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Dykman wrote: > > On my Ubuntu system, the database underlying the file command is found at > > /usr/share/file/magic.mgc . > > > > It is a binary file; > > That binary file is compiled from all the plain-text files in > /usr/share/file/magic . > > The format for those “magic files” (aka patterns, signatures) is in the > man pages for “file”. Here’s one transcript available on the web: > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/magic.4.html < > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/magic.4.html> > > -Dan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
