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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-12-12 14:46:55 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-12-12 14:46:55 +0000
commit65d9e0e0062d49c8029fbd865291bced37da204e (patch)
tree72e8d1bedc76462d76e375f24264f4eb2f3409b3 /usr.bin/file/magic.5
parentb2c9c0dab279fa7ef3fa15d82f3e4b2398895397 (diff)
Remove hard-sentence breaks, canonify .Dd (no leading zero).
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=69911
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/file/magic.5')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/file/magic.58
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/file/magic.5 b/usr.bin/file/magic.5
index 3b88eac42bfa..cf6b02ed0993 100644
--- a/usr.bin/file/magic.5
+++ b/usr.bin/file/magic.5
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\"
.\" install as magic.4 on USG, magic.5 on V7 or Berkeley systems.
.\"
-.Dd December 08, 2000
+.Dd December 8, 2000
.Dt MAGIC 5 "Public Domain"
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
This manual page documents the format of the magic file as
used by the
.Nm
-command, version 3.33. The
+command, version 3.33.
+The
.Nm file
command identifies the type of a file using,
among other tests,
@@ -48,7 +49,8 @@ A four-byte value (on most systems) in this machine's native byte order.
.It string
A string of bytes.
The string type specification can be optionally followed
-by /[Bbc]*. The
+by /[Bbc]*.
+The
.Dq B
flag compacts whitespace in the target, which must contain
at least one whitespace character.