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authorChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2012-09-06 14:42:39 +0000
committerChristos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>2012-09-06 14:42:39 +0000
commit79f6aeec4e5d80e48e2a2a393694b5b6096862bf (patch)
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PR/197: Add string trimming patch.
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diff --git a/doc/magic.man b/doc/magic.man
index 750a8407..b237f73f 100644
--- a/doc/magic.man
+++ b/doc/magic.man
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.\" $File: magic.man,v 1.72 2012/04/03 22:25:07 christos Exp $
-.Dd April 3, 2012
+.\" $File: magic.man,v 1.73 2012/08/26 10:08:29 christos Exp $
+.Dd September 6, 2012
.Dt MAGIC __FSECTION__
.Os
.\" install as magic.4 on USG, magic.5 on V7, Berkeley and Linux systems.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ A 64-bit double precision IEEE floating point number in this machine's native by
.It Dv string
A string of bytes.
The string type specification can be optionally followed
-by /[WwcCtb]*.
+by /[WwcCtbT]*.
The
.Dq W
flag compacts whitespace in the target, which must
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ The
flag forces the test to be done for text files, while the
.Dq b
flag forces the test to be done for binary files.
+The
+.Dq T
+flag causes the string to be trimmed, i.e. leading and trailing whitespace
+is deleted before the string is printed.
.It Dv pstring
A Pascal-style string where the first byte/short/int is interpreted as the
unsigned length.