Hello, I'm looking at the magic(5) man page, and I'm still all sorts of lost while creating the start of a simple magic definition. I'll need to eventually run this on FreeBSD, and such I'm using my ibook since the man pages appear identical. It might work the same in Linux, but I'm not testing that yet.
I'm essentially trying to look within the first 1-2kb with the file(1) command, supply my own additional magic file, and see if the text "quick brown fox" (as an example) is present. I'm almost ready to cheat and use this instead: zcat file.txt | head -c 2048 | tail -c 1024 | grep -o "quick brown fox" I'm tinkering with file magic first just to see. I've thought of using this approach no few times in the past but chicken out with a script etc. Regards, Scott. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
