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authorChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2017-01-03 11:24:46 +0000
committerChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2017-01-03 11:24:46 +0000
commit13b99d4bad68062a0de09dd9873afad4e51ec3aa (patch)
tree13a0fceff0f5256cf7239282a81a62724dfdb426
parentfd1c514473926088320790496722029a529f1395 (diff)
downloadfile-git-13b99d4bad68062a0de09dd9873afad4e51ec3aa.tar.gz
minor nits from Abhinav Upadhyay
-rw-r--r--doc/file.man21
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/file.man b/doc/file.man
index 94174c45..1c66241c 100644
--- a/doc/file.man
+++ b/doc/file.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $File: file.man,v 1.124 2016/10/19 20:52:45 christos Exp $
+.\" $File: file.man,v 1.125 2017/01/03 11:24:46 christos Exp $
.Dd October 19, 2016
.Dt FILE __CSECTION__
.Os
@@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ or at least one filename argument must be present;
to test the standard input, use
.Sq -
as a filename argument.
-Please note that
-.Ar namefile
+Please note that
+.Ar namefile
is unwrapped and the enclosed filenames are processed when this option is
encountered and before any further options processing is done.
This allows one to process multiple lists of files with different command line
@@ -411,10 +411,10 @@ and
.Fl h
options.
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr magic __FSECTION__ ,
.Xr hexdump 1 ,
.Xr od 1 ,
.Xr strings 1 ,
+.Xr magic __FSECTION__
.Sh STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
This program is believed to exceed the System V Interface Definition
of FILE(CMD), as near as one can determine from the vague language
@@ -530,16 +530,15 @@ John Gilmore revised the code extensively, making it better than
the first version.
Geoff Collyer found several inadequacies
and provided some magic file entries.
-Contributions by the
+Contributions of the
.Sq \*[Am]
operator by Rob McMahon,
.Aq cudcv@warwick.ac.uk ,
1989.
.Pp
-Guy Harris,
+Guy Harris,
.Aq guy@netapp.com ,
made many changes from 1993 to the present.
-1989.
.Pp
Primary development and maintenance from 1990 to the present by
Christos Zoulas
@@ -587,7 +586,6 @@ program, and are not covered by the above license.
.Nm
returns 0 on success, and non-zero on error.
.Sh BUGS
-.Pp
Please report bugs and send patches to the bug tracker at
.Pa http://bugs.gw.com/
or the mailing list at
@@ -596,7 +594,6 @@ or the mailing list at
.Pa http://mx.gw.com/mailman/listinfo/file
first to subscribe).
.Sh TODO
-.Pp
Fix output so that tests for MIME and APPLE flags are not needed all
over the place, and actual output is only done in one place.
This needs a design.
@@ -645,16 +642,16 @@ Fix
.Dq name
and
.Dq use
-to check for consistency at compile time (duplicate
+to check for consistency at compile time (duplicate
.Dq name ,
.Dq use
pointing to undefined
.Dq name
).
-Make
+Make
.Dq name
/
-.Dq use
+.Dq use
more efficient by keeping a sorted list of names.
Special-case ^ to flip endianness in the parser so that it does not
have to be escaped, and document it.