On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:02:59PM -0400, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> >
> >See /etc/magic for the list of "magic numbers" the file(1) uses.
> > 
> >
> On Linux, that's often burried in /usr/share somewhere these days, for 
> example I just checked on Mandrake 10 it's /usr/share/misc/file/magic, 
> "rpm -q -l file" will help on RPM-based systems, or "locate" (from 
> slocate if installed) might help find it.

Ahh, tnx.

>From now on I'll say "check the man page for the file(1) command to
determine the location of the magic number file (was /etc/magic).
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