#!/bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run ## 998-doc-manpages.dpatch by Michael Piefel ## ## DP: FIXME, and #417511. @DPATCH@ diff -Naur file-4.20.orig/doc/file.man file-4.20/doc/file.man --- file-4.20.orig/doc/file.man 2007-01-25 21:05:46.000000000 +0000 +++ file-4.20/doc/file.man 2007-04-03 17:57:01.000000000 +0000 @@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ or non-printable). Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives) that are known to contain binary data. -When modifying the file -.Pa __MAGIC__ -or the program itself, make sure to +When adding local definitions to +.Pa /etc/magic , .Em "preserve these keywords" . People depend on knowing that all the readable files in a directory have the word @@ -76,17 +75,17 @@ implement them) are intuited if they are defined in the system header file -.In sys/stat.h . +.Pa sys/stat.h . .Pp The magic number tests are used to check for files with data in particular fixed formats. The canonical example of this is a binary executable (compiled program) .Dv a.out file, whose format is defined in -.In elf.h , -.In a.out.h +.Pa elf.h , +.Pa a.out.h and possibly -.In exec.h +.Pa exec.h in the standard include directory. These files have a .Sq "magic number" @@ -99,12 +98,14 @@ has been applied by extension to data files. Any file with some invariant identifier at a small fixed offset into the file can usually be described in this way. -The information identifying these files is read from the compiled +The information identifying these files is read from +.Pa /etc/magic +and the compiled magic file .Pa __MAGIC__.mgc , or .Pa __MAGIC__ -if the compile file does not exist. In addition +if the compiled file does not exist. In addition .Nm will look in .Pa $HOME/.magic.mgc , @@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ it will attempt to determine in what language the file is written. The language tests look for particular strings (cf -.In names.h +.Pa names.h that can appear anywhere in the first few blocks of a file. For example, the keyword .Em .br @@ -161,7 +162,8 @@ archives). .Pp Any file that cannot be identified as having been written -in any of the character sets listed above is simply said to be ``data''. +in any of the character sets listed above is simply said to be +.Dq data . .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl b , -brief @@ -239,7 +241,12 @@ .Dq FILES section, below). .It Fl k , -keep-going -Don't stop at the first match, keep going. +Don't stop at the first match, keep going. Subsequent matches will be +prepended by +.Dq "\[rs]012\- ". +(If you want a newline, see +.Dq "\-r" +option.) .It Fl L , -dereference option causes symlinks to be followed, as the like-named option in .Xr ls 1 @@ -252,7 +259,8 @@ This can be a single file, or a colon-separated list of files. If a compiled magic file is found alongside, it will be used instead. With the -.Fl i or +.Fl i +or .Fl "mime" option, the program adds .Dq .mime @@ -339,6 +347,11 @@ and/or .Dq .mgc to the value of this variable as appropriate. +However, +.Pa file +has to exist in order for +.Pa file.mime +to be considered. The environment variable .Dv POSIXLY_CORRECT controls (on systems that support symbolic links), if @@ -413,12 +426,6 @@ The order of entries in the magic file is significant. Depending on what system you are using, the order that they are put together may be incorrect. -If your old -.Nm -command uses a magic file, -keep the old magic file around for comparison purposes -(rename it to -.Pa __MAGIC__.orig ). .Sh EXAMPLES .Bd -literal -offset indent $ file file.c file /dev/{wd0a,hda} @@ -586,9 +593,17 @@ The new support for multiple character codes makes it even slower. .Pp This manual page, and particularly this section, is too long. +.Sh RETURN CODE +.Nm +almost always returns 0. It returns a different code if it cannot open a file. .Sh AVAILABILITY You can obtain the original author's latest version by anonymous FTP on .Dv ftp.astron.com in the directory .Dv /pub/file/file-X.YZ.tar.gz +.Pp +This Debian version adds a number of new magix entries. It can be +obtained from every site carrying a Debian distribution (that is +.Dv ftp.debian.org +and mirrors). diff -Naur file-4.20.orig/doc/libmagic.man file-4.20/doc/libmagic.man --- file-4.20.orig/doc/libmagic.man 2007-01-25 21:04:08.000000000 +0000 +++ file-4.20/doc/libmagic.man 2007-04-03 17:56:16.000000000 +0000 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ .Nm magic_load .Nd Magic number recognition library. .Sh LIBRARY -.Lb libmagic +.Lb libmagic1 .Sh SYNOPSIS .In magic.h .Ft magic_t diff -Naur file-4.20.orig/doc/magic.man file-4.20/doc/magic.man --- file-4.20.orig/doc/magic.man 2007-01-12 17:38:27.000000000 +0000 +++ file-4.20/doc/magic.man 2007-04-03 17:56:16.000000000 +0000 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ .Dq c flag, specifies case insensitive matching: lowercase characters in the magic match both lower and upper case characters in the -targer, whereas upper case characters in the magic, only much uppercase +target, whereas upper case characters in the magic, only much uppercase characters in the target. .It Dv pstring A pascal style string where the first byte is interpreted as the an