Re: [OT] Magic numbers
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:27:16 +0000, Lisi wrote:
> I need to find out:
> a)What the magic number should be for certain types of file
"man magic" says you have to look under "/usr/share/file/magic"
> and b)Whether a specific file of that type has the correct magic number.
"file" command, as already pointed out, can help.
> Here is my one, so far futile, effort - in addition to googling until I
> can see magic numbered smoke coming out of my ears. :-(
>
> lisi@Tux:~$ cat /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc | grep gzip
> Binary file (standard input) matches
> lisi@Tux:~$
grep gzip /usr/share/file/magic
> I realise that this is more specific to UNIX than specific to Debian -
> but it applies to all the UNIX family, and Debian is part of that
> family. ;-)
Additional info:
http://www.linfo.org/magic_number.html
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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