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authorChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2019-02-18 18:59:25 +0000
committerChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2019-02-18 18:59:25 +0000
commit642f269ef99930b44daa2236908da7d05a68eb08 (patch)
tree673686dd4a7991f136703cf94052a74b11707c4d
parent5c3eba82c371c812003065b3aa11be7f71dd0a62 (diff)
downloadfile-git-642f269ef99930b44daa2236908da7d05a68eb08.tar.gz
Mention that the apple filetype/creator is only available for entries that
have it (Kamil Dudka)
-rw-r--r--doc/file.man7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/file.man b/doc/file.man
index 978a4b53..070a2e4d 100644
--- a/doc/file.man
+++ b/doc/file.man
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.\" $File: file.man,v 1.133 2018/10/01 18:51:39 christos Exp $
-.Dd October 1, 2018
+.\" $File: file.man,v 1.134 2019/02/18 18:59:25 christos Exp $
+.Dd February 18, 2019
.Dt FILE __CSECTION__
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ Causes the file command to output the file type and creator code as
used by older MacOS versions.
The code consists of eight letters,
the first describing the file type, the latter the creator.
+the first describing the file type, the latter the creator.
+This option works properly only for file formats that have the
+apple-style output defined.
.It Fl b , Fl Fl brief
Do not prepend filenames to output lines (brief mode).
.It Fl C , Fl Fl compile