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Re: where is magic file for "file" command?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 17:59:17 +0200
- Subject: Re: where is magic file for "file" command?
- References: <20050515153950.94805.qmail@web53601.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 15 08:39, airplays55@yahoo.com wrote:
> For some reason my cygwin installation didn't include
> the magic file used by the "file" command. So I get
> the following error when running it:
>
> file: magic file "/etc/magic": not a directory or path
> not found
For some reason you're running the wrong version of `file'.
Cygwin's `file' tool expects the magic file in /usr/share/file.
Corinna
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