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Article #2Re: files and /etc/magic
From: Peter Beckmann
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 13:42
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 13:42
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Here is some stuff i picked off the net. 0 string <!OPS Interleaf ASCII document # 0 string <MakerFile Frame Maker document 0 string <MIFFile Frame Maker MIF file 0 string <MML Frame Maker MML file # # from pbmplus27sep91/magic # PBMPLUS auxiliary magic numbers file # # These are meant to be used with the "file" program to help determine # the type of a file. You can add these entries to the system's /etc/magic # file, or if your version of "file" supports the -m flag you can use # them that way. # # All of these entries use the "string" format so that they will work on # both big-endian and little-endian machines. 0 string begin uuencoded file 0 string xbtoa btoa'd file 0 string P1 PBM file 0 string P2 PGM file 0 string P3 PPM file 0 string P4 PBM "rawbits" file 0 string P5 PGM "rawbits" file 0 string P6 PPM "rawbits" file 0 string \361\0\100\273 CMU window manager bitmap 0 string yz MGR bitmap 0 string \115\115 TIFF file, big-endian 0 string \111\111 TIFF file, little-endian #0 string GIF87a GIF file #0 string GIF89a GIF file 8 string ILBM IFF ILBM file 0 string This\040is\040a\040BitMap\040file Lisp Machine bit-array-file 0 string !! Bennet Yee's "face" format #Article 400 of alt.sources: #From: cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au or cameron@cs.unsw.oz.au (Cameron Simpson) #Subject: some useful additions to your magic file ... #Date: 21 Mar 92 05:55:23 GMT #Organization: CS&E Computing Facility, Uni Of NSW, Oz # #This is simply a list of a few entries which seem missing from most systems' #magic files. The first 10 or so entries recognise and classify executable #scripts, which otherwise tend to be called C source etc. The last few entries #recognise a couple of common image formats, always useful when trolling for #users who are wasting disc space when things are tight. 0 string #! exec()able script >2 string /bin/sh - Bourne shell >2 string /usr/bin/sh - Bourne shell >2 string /bin/ksh - Korn shell >2 string /usr/local/bin/ash - NeilBrown's ash >2 string /usr/local/bin/ae - NeilBrown's ae >2 string /home/harry/bin/perl - Perl >2 string /usr/local/bin/perl - Perl >2 string /usr/bin/perl - Perl >2 string /bin/awk - AWK >2 string /bin/nawk - new AWK >2 string /usr/bin/nawk - new AWK >2 string /usr/local/bin/nawk - new AWK >2 string /bin/gawk - GNU AWK >2 string /usr/local/bin/gawk - GNU AWK >2 string /bin/csh - C shell >2 string /usr/bin/csh - C shell >2 string /usr/bin/tcsh - tcsh shell >2 string /bin/tcsh - tcsh shell 0 string GIF GIF image archive >3 string 87a - version %3s >3 string 87A - version %3s >3 string 89a - version %3s >3 string 89A - version %3s 0 long 0xffd8ffe0 JPEG image, big endian 0 long 0xe0ffd8ff JPEG image, little endian 0 string hsi1 HSI1 image (wrapper for JPEG?) # for sc files 38 string Spreadsheet sc file
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Newsgroups: comp.unnix,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!sunra10.cern.ch!pb From: pb@sunra10.cern.ch (Peter Beckmann) Subject: Re: files and /etc/magic Message-ID: <1992Oct28.134207.2138@dxcern.cern.ch> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Reply-To: peterb@dxcern.cern.ch Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics References: <1992Oct27.154107.1768@linus.mitre.org> <1992Oct28.123526.16863@uk03.bull.co.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 13:42:07 GMT Lines: 79