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2.Dd Arpil 18, 2023
3.Dt MAGIC __FSECTION__
4.Os
5.\" install as magic.4 on USG, magic.5 on V7, Berkeley and Linux systems.
6.Sh NAME
7.Nm magic
8.Nd file command's magic pattern file
9.Sh DESCRIPTION
10This manual page documents the format of magic files as
11used by the
12.Xr file __CSECTION__
13command, version __VERSION__.
14The
15.Xr file __CSECTION__
16command identifies the type of a file using,
17among other tests,
18a test for whether the file contains certain
19.Dq "magic patterns" .
20The database of these
21.Dq "magic patterns"
22is usually located in a binary file in
23.Pa __MAGIC__.mgc
24or a directory of source text magic pattern fragment files in
25.Pa __MAGIC__ .
26The database specifies what patterns are to be tested for, what message or
27MIME type to print if a particular pattern is found,
28and additional information to extract from the file.
29.Pp
30The format of the source fragment files that are used to build this database
31is as follows:
32Each line of a fragment file specifies a test to be performed.
33A test compares the data starting at a particular offset
34in the file with a byte value, a string or a numeric value.
35If the test succeeds, a message is printed.
36The line consists of the following fields:
37.Bl -tag -width ".Dv message"
38.It Dv offset
39A number specifying the offset (in bytes) into the file of the data
40which is to be tested.
41This offset can be a negative number if it is:
42.Bl -bullet  -compact
43.It
44The first direct offset of the magic entry (at continuation level 0),
45in which case it is interpreted an offset from end end of the file
46going backwards.
47This works only when a file descriptor to the file is available and it
48is a regular file.
49.It
50A continuation offset relative to the end of the last up-level field
51.Dv ( \*[Am] ) .
52.El
53.It Dv type
54The type of the data to be tested.
55The possible values are:
56.Bl -tag -width ".Dv lestring16"
57.It Dv byte
58A one-byte value.
59.It Dv short
60A two-byte value in this machine's native byte order.
61.It Dv long
62A four-byte value in this machine's native byte order.
63.It Dv quad
64An eight-byte value in this machine's native byte order.
65.It Dv float
66A 32-bit single precision IEEE floating point number in this machine's native byte order.
67.It Dv double
68A 64-bit double precision IEEE floating point number in this machine's native byte order.
69.It Dv string
70A string of bytes.
71The string type specification can be optionally followed by a /<width>
72option and optionally followed by a set of flags /[bCcftTtWw]*.
73The width limits the number of characters to be copied.
74Zero means all characters.
75The following flags are supported:
76.Bl -tag -width B -compact -offset XXXX
77.It b
78Force binary file test.
79.It C
80Use upper case insensitive matching: upper case
81characters in the magic match both lower and upper case characters in the
82target, whereas lower case characters in the magic only match upper case
83characters in the target.
84.It c
85Use lower case insensitive matching: lower case
86characters in the magic match both lower and upper case characters in the
87target, whereas upper case characters in the magic only match upper case
88characters in the target.
89To do a complete case insensitive match, specify both
90.Dq c
91and
92.Dq C .
93.It f
94Require that the matched string is a full word, not a partial word match.
95.It T
96Trim the string, i.e. leading and trailing whitespace
97.It t
98Force text file test.
99.It W
100Compact whitespace in the target, which must
101contain at least one whitespace character.
102If the magic has
103.Dv n
104consecutive blanks, the target needs at least
105.Dv n
106consecutive blanks to match.
107.It w
108Treat every blank in the magic as an optional blank.
109is deleted before the string is printed.
110.El
111.It Dv pstring
112A Pascal-style string where the first byte/short/int is interpreted as the
113unsigned length.
114The length defaults to byte and can be specified as a modifier.
115The following modifiers are supported:
116.Bl -tag -width B -compact -offset XXXX
117.It B
118A byte length (default).
119.It H
120A 2 byte big endian length.
121.It h
122A 2 byte little endian length.
123.It L
124A 4 byte big endian length.
125.It l
126A 4 byte little endian length.
127.It J
128The length includes itself in its count.
129.El
130The string is not NUL terminated.
131.Dq J
132is used rather than the more
133valuable
134.Dq I
135because this type of length is a feature of the JPEG
136format.
137.It Dv date
138A four-byte value interpreted as a UNIX date.
139.It Dv qdate
140An eight-byte value interpreted as a UNIX date.
141.It Dv ldate
142A four-byte value interpreted as a UNIX-style date, but interpreted as
143local time rather than UTC.
144.It Dv qldate
145An eight-byte value interpreted as a UNIX-style date, but interpreted as
146local time rather than UTC.
147.It Dv qwdate
148An eight-byte value interpreted as a Windows-style date.
149.It Dv beid3
150A 32-bit ID3 length in big-endian byte order.
151.It Dv beshort
152A two-byte value in big-endian byte order.
153.It Dv belong
154A four-byte value in big-endian byte order.
155.It Dv bequad
156An eight-byte value in big-endian byte order.
157.It Dv befloat
158A 32-bit single precision IEEE floating point number in big-endian byte order.
159.It Dv bedouble
160A 64-bit double precision IEEE floating point number in big-endian byte order.
161.It Dv bedate
162A four-byte value in big-endian byte order,
163interpreted as a Unix date.
164.It Dv beqdate
165An eight-byte value in big-endian byte order,
166interpreted as a Unix date.
167.It Dv beldate
168A four-byte value in big-endian byte order,
169interpreted as a UNIX-style date, but interpreted as local time rather
170than UTC.
171.It Dv beqldate
172An eight-byte value in big-endian byte order,
173interpreted as a UNIX-style date, but interpreted as local time rather
174than UTC.
175.It Dv beqwdate
176An eight-byte value in big-endian byte order,
177interpreted as a Windows-style date.
178.It Dv bestring16
179A two-byte unicode (UCS16) string in big-endian byte order.
180.It Dv leid3
181A 32-bit ID3 length in little-endian byte order.
182.It Dv leshort
183A two-byte value in little-endian byte order.
184.It Dv lelong
185A four-byte value in little-endian byte order.
186.It Dv lequad
187An eight-byte value in little-endian byte order.
188.It Dv lefloat
189A 32-bit single precision IEEE floating point number in little-endian byte order.
190.It Dv ledouble
191A 64-bit double precision IEEE floating point number in little-endian byte order.
192.It Dv ledate
193A four-byte value in little-endian byte order,
194interpreted as a UNIX date.
195.It Dv leqdate
196An eight-byte value in little-endian byte order,
197interpreted as a UNIX date.
198.It Dv leldate
199A four-byte value in little-endian byte order,
200interpreted as a UNIX-style date, but interpreted as local time rather
201than UTC.
202.It Dv leqldate
203An eight-byte value in little-endian byte order,
204interpreted as a UNIX-style date, but interpreted as local time rather
205than UTC.
206.It Dv leqwdate
207An eight-byte value in little-endian byte order,
208interpreted as a Windows-style date.
209.It Dv lestring16
210A two-byte unicode (UCS16) string in little-endian byte order.
211.It Dv melong
212A four-byte value in middle-endian (PDP-11) byte order.
213.It Dv medate
214A four-byte value in middle-endian (PDP-11) byte order,
215interpreted as a UNIX date.
216.It Dv meldate
217A four-byte value in middle-endian (PDP-11) byte order,
218interpreted as a UNIX-style date, but interpreted as local time rather
219than UTC.
220.It Dv indirect
221Starting at the given offset, consult the magic database again.
222The offset of the
223.Dv indirect
224magic is by default absolute in the file, but one can specify
225.Dv /r
226to indicate that the offset is relative from the beginning of the entry.
227.It Dv name
228Define a
229.Dq named
230magic instance that can be called from another
231.Dv use
232magic entry, like a subroutine call.
233Named instance direct magic offsets are relative to the offset of the
234previous matched entry, but indirect offsets are relative to the beginning
235of the file as usual.
236Named magic entries always match.
237.It Dv use
238Recursively call the named magic starting from the current offset.
239If the name of the referenced begins with a
240.Dv ^
241then the endianness of the magic is switched; if the magic mentioned
242.Dv leshort
243for example,
244it is treated as
245.Dv beshort
246and vice versa.
247This is useful to avoid duplicating the rules for different endianness.
248.It Dv regex
249A regular expression match in extended POSIX regular expression syntax
250(like egrep).
251Regular expressions can take exponential time to process, and their
252performance is hard to predict, so their use is discouraged.
253When used in production environments, their performance
254should be carefully checked.
255The size of the string to search should also be limited by specifying
256.Dv /<length> ,
257to avoid performance issues scanning long files.
258The type specification can also be optionally followed by
259.Dv /[c][s][l] .
260The
261.Dq c
262flag makes the match case insensitive, while the
263.Dq s
264flag update the offset to the start offset of the match, rather than the end.
265The
266.Dq l
267modifier, changes the limit of length to mean number of lines instead of a
268byte count.
269Lines are delimited by the platforms native line delimiter.
270When a line count is specified, an implicit byte count also computed assuming
271each line is 80 characters long.
272If neither a byte or line count is specified, the search is limited automatically
273to 8KiB.
274.Dv ^
275and
276.Dv $
277match the beginning and end of individual lines, respectively,
278not beginning and end of file.
279.It Dv search
280A literal string search starting at the given offset.
281The same modifier flags can be used as for string patterns.
282The search expression must contain the range in the form
283.Dv /number,
284that is the number of positions at which the match will be
285attempted, starting from the start offset.
286This is suitable for
287searching larger binary expressions with variable offsets, using
288.Dv \e
289escapes for special characters.
290The order of modifier and number is not relevant.
291.It Dv default
292This is intended to be used with the test
293.Em x
294(which is always true) and it has no type.
295It matches when no other test at that continuation level has matched before.
296Clearing that matched tests for a continuation level, can be done using the
297.Dv clear
298test.
299.It Dv clear
300This test is always true and clears the match flag for that continuation level.
301It is intended to be used with the
302.Dv default
303test.
304.It Dv der
305Parse the file as a DER Certificate file.
306The test field is used as a der type that needs to be matched.
307The DER types are:
308.Dv eoc ,
309.Dv bool ,
310.Dv int ,
311.Dv bit_str ,
312.Dv octet_str ,
313.Dv null ,
314.Dv obj_id ,
315.Dv obj_desc ,
316.Dv ext ,
317.Dv real ,
318.Dv enum ,
319.Dv embed ,
320.Dv utf8_str ,
321.Dv rel_oid ,
322.Dv time ,
323.Dv res2 ,
324.Dv seq ,
325.Dv set ,
326.Dv num_str ,
327.Dv prt_str ,
328.Dv t61_str ,
329.Dv vid_str ,
330.Dv ia5_str ,
331.Dv utc_time ,
332.Dv gen_time ,
333.Dv gr_str ,
334.Dv vis_str ,
335.Dv gen_str ,
336.Dv univ_str ,
337.Dv char_str ,
338.Dv bmp_str ,
339.Dv date ,
340.Dv tod ,
341.Dv datetime ,
342.Dv duration ,
343.Dv oid-iri ,
344.Dv rel-oid-iri .
345These types can be followed by an optional numeric size, which indicates
346the field width in bytes.
347.It Dv guid
348A Globally Unique Identifier, parsed and printed as
349XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX.
350It's format is a string.
351.It Dv offset
352This is a quad value indicating the current offset of the file.
353It can be used to determine the size of the file or the magic buffer.
354For example the magic entries:
355.Bd -literal -offset indent
356-0	offset	x	this file is %lld bytes
357-0	offset	<=100	must be more than 100 \e
358    bytes and is only %lld
359.Ed
360.It Dv octal
361A string representing an octal number.
362.El
363.El
364.Pp
365For compatibility with the Single
366.Ux
367Standard, the type specifiers
368.Dv dC
369and
370.Dv d1
371are equivalent to
372.Dv byte ,
373the type specifiers
374.Dv uC
375and
376.Dv u1
377are equivalent to
378.Dv ubyte ,
379the type specifiers
380.Dv dS
381and
382.Dv d2
383are equivalent to
384.Dv short ,
385the type specifiers
386.Dv uS
387and
388.Dv u2
389are equivalent to
390.Dv ushort ,
391the type specifiers
392.Dv dI ,
393.Dv dL ,
394and
395.Dv d4
396are equivalent to
397.Dv long ,
398the type specifiers
399.Dv uI ,
400.Dv uL ,
401and
402.Dv u4
403are equivalent to
404.Dv ulong ,
405the type specifier
406.Dv d8
407is equivalent to
408.Dv quad ,
409the type specifier
410.Dv u8
411is equivalent to
412.Dv uquad ,
413and the type specifier
414.Dv s
415is equivalent to
416.Dv string .
417In addition, the type specifier
418.Dv dQ
419is equivalent to
420.Dv quad
421and the type specifier
422.Dv uQ
423is equivalent to
424.Dv uquad .
425.Pp
426Each top-level magic pattern (see below for an explanation of levels)
427is classified as text or binary according to the types used.
428Types
429.Dq regex
430and
431.Dq search
432are classified as text tests, unless non-printable characters are used
433in the pattern.
434All other tests are classified as binary.
435A top-level
436pattern is considered to be a test text when all its patterns are text
437patterns; otherwise, it is considered to be a binary pattern.
438When
439matching a file, binary patterns are tried first; if no match is
440found, and the file looks like text, then its encoding is determined
441and the text patterns are tried.
442.Pp
443The numeric types may optionally be followed by
444.Dv \*[Am]
445and a numeric value,
446to specify that the value is to be AND'ed with the
447numeric value before any comparisons are done.
448Prepending a
449.Dv u
450to the type indicates that ordered comparisons should be unsigned.
451.It Dv test
452The value to be compared with the value from the file.
453If the type is
454numeric, this value
455is specified in C form; if it is a string, it is specified as a C string
456with the usual escapes permitted (e.g. \en for new-line).
457.Pp
458Numeric values
459may be preceded by a character indicating the operation to be performed.
460It may be
461.Dv = ,
462to specify that the value from the file must equal the specified value,
463.Dv \*[Lt] ,
464to specify that the value from the file must be less than the specified
465value,
466.Dv \*[Gt] ,
467to specify that the value from the file must be greater than the specified
468value,
469.Dv \*[Am] ,
470to specify that the value from the file must have set all of the bits
471that are set in the specified value,
472.Dv ^ ,
473to specify that the value from the file must have clear any of the bits
474that are set in the specified value, or
475.Dv ~ ,
476the value specified after is negated before tested.
477.Dv x ,
478to specify that any value will match.
479If the character is omitted, it is assumed to be
480.Dv = .
481Operators
482.Dv \*[Am] ,
483.Dv ^ ,
484and
485.Dv ~
486don't work with floats and doubles.
487The operator
488.Dv !\&
489specifies that the line matches if the test does
490.Em not
491succeed.
492.Pp
493Numeric values are specified in C form; e.g.
494.Dv 13
495is decimal,
496.Dv 013
497is octal, and
498.Dv 0x13
499is hexadecimal.
500.Pp
501Numeric operations are not performed on date types, instead the numeric
502value is interpreted as an offset.
503.Pp
504For string values, the string from the
505file must match the specified string.
506The operators
507.Dv = ,
508.Dv \*[Lt]
509and
510.Dv \*[Gt]
511(but not
512.Dv \*[Am] )
513can be applied to strings.
514The length used for matching is that of the string argument
515in the magic file.
516This means that a line can match any non-empty string (usually used to
517then print the string), with
518.Em \*[Gt]\e0
519(because all non-empty strings are greater than the empty string).
520.Pp
521Dates are treated as numerical values in the respective internal
522representation.
523.Pp
524The special test
525.Em x
526always evaluates to true.
527.It Dv message
528The message to be printed if the comparison succeeds.
529If the string contains a
530.Xr printf 3
531format specification, the value from the file (with any specified masking
532performed) is printed using the message as the format string.
533If the string begins with
534.Dq \eb ,
535the message printed is the remainder of the string with no whitespace
536added before it: multiple matches are normally separated by a single
537space.
538.El
539.Pp
540An APPLE 4+4 character APPLE creator and type can be specified as:
541.Bd -literal -offset indent
542!:apple	CREATYPE
543.Ed
544.Pp
545A slash-separated list of commonly found filename extensions can be specified
546as:
547.Bd -literal -offset indent
548!:ext	ext[/ext...]
549.Ed
550.Pp
551i.e. the literal string
552.Dq !:ext
553followed by a slash-separated list of commonly found extensions; for example
554for JPEG images:
555.Bd -literal -offset indent
556!:ext jpeg/jpg/jpe/jfif
557.Ed
558.Pp
559A MIME type is given on a separate line, which must be the next
560non-blank or comment line after the magic line that identifies the
561file type, and has the following format:
562.Bd -literal -offset indent
563!:mime	MIMETYPE
564.Ed
565.Pp
566i.e. the literal string
567.Dq !:mime
568followed by the MIME type.
569.Pp
570An optional strength can be supplied on a separate line which refers to
571the current magic description using the following format:
572.Bd -literal -offset indent
573!:strength OP VALUE
574.Ed
575.Pp
576The operand
577.Dv OP
578can be:
579.Dv + ,
580.Dv - ,
581.Dv * ,
582or
583.Dv /
584and
585.Dv VALUE
586is a constant between 0 and 255.
587This constant is applied using the specified operand
588to the currently computed default magic strength.
589.Pp
590Some file formats contain additional information which is to be printed
591along with the file type or need additional tests to determine the true
592file type.
593These additional tests are introduced by one or more
594.Em \*[Gt]
595characters preceding the offset.
596The number of
597.Em \*[Gt]
598on the line indicates the level of the test; a line with no
599.Em \*[Gt]
600at the beginning is considered to be at level 0.
601Tests are arranged in a tree-like hierarchy:
602if the test on a line at level
603.Em n
604succeeds, all following tests at level
605.Em n+1
606are performed, and the messages printed if the tests succeed, until a line
607with level
608.Em n
609(or less) appears.
610For more complex files, one can use empty messages to get just the
611"if/then" effect, in the following way:
612.Bd -literal -offset indent
6130      string   MZ
614\*[Gt]0x18  leshort  \*[Lt]0x40   MS-DOS executable
615\*[Gt]0x18  leshort  \*[Gt]0x3f   extended PC executable (e.g., MS Windows)
616.Ed
617.Pp
618Offsets do not need to be constant, but can also be read from the file
619being examined.
620If the first character following the last
621.Em \*[Gt]
622is a
623.Em \&(
624then the string after the parenthesis is interpreted as an indirect offset.
625That means that the number after the parenthesis is used as an offset in
626the file.
627The value at that offset is read, and is used again as an offset
628in the file.
629Indirect offsets are of the form:
630.Em (( x [[.,][bBcCeEfFgGhHiIlmsSqQ]][+\-][ y ]) .
631The value of
632.Em x
633is used as an offset in the file.
634A byte, id3 length, short or long is read at that offset depending on the
635.Em [bBcCeEfFgGhHiIlmsSqQ]
636type specifier.
637The value is treated as signed if
638.Dq ,
639is specified or unsigned if
640.Dq .
641is specified.
642The capitalized types interpret the number as a big endian
643value, whereas the small letter versions interpret the number as a little
644endian value;
645the
646.Em m
647type interprets the number as a middle endian (PDP-11) value.
648To that number the value of
649.Em y
650is added and the result is used as an offset in the file.
651The default type if one is not specified is long.
652The following types are recognized:
653.Bl -column -offset indent "Type" "Half/Short" "Little" "Size"
654.It Sy Type	Sy Mnemonic	Sy Endian	Sy Size
655.It bcBc	Byte/Char	N/A	1
656.It efg	Double	Little	8
657.It EFG	Double	Big	8
658.It hs	Half/Short	Little	2
659.It HS	Half/Short	Big	2
660.It i	ID3	Little	4
661.It I	ID3	Big	4
662.It m	Middle	Middle	4
663.It o	Octal	Textual	Variable
664.It q	Quad	Little	8
665.It Q	Quad	Big	8
666.El
667.Pp
668That way variable length structures can be examined:
669.Bd -literal -offset indent
670# MS Windows executables are also valid MS-DOS executables
6710           string  MZ
672\*[Gt]0x18       leshort \*[Lt]0x40   MZ executable (MS-DOS)
673# skip the whole block below if it is not an extended executable
674\*[Gt]0x18       leshort \*[Gt]0x3f
675\*[Gt]\*[Gt](0x3c.l)  string  PE\e0\e0  PE executable (MS-Windows)
676\*[Gt]\*[Gt](0x3c.l)  string  LX\e0\e0  LX executable (OS/2)
677.Ed
678.Pp
679This strategy of examining has a drawback: you must make sure that you
680eventually print something, or users may get empty output (such as when
681there is neither PE\e0\e0 nor LE\e0\e0 in the above example).
682.Pp
683If this indirect offset cannot be used directly, simple calculations are
684possible: appending
685.Em [+-*/%\*[Am]|^]number
686inside parentheses allows one to modify
687the value read from the file before it is used as an offset:
688.Bd -literal -offset indent
689# MS Windows executables are also valid MS-DOS executables
6900           string  MZ
691# sometimes, the value at 0x18 is less that 0x40 but there's still an
692# extended executable, simply appended to the file
693\*[Gt]0x18       leshort \*[Lt]0x40
694\*[Gt]\*[Gt](4.s*512) leshort 0x014c  COFF executable (MS-DOS, DJGPP)
695\*[Gt]\*[Gt](4.s*512) leshort !0x014c MZ executable (MS-DOS)
696.Ed
697.Pp
698Sometimes you do not know the exact offset as this depends on the length or
699position (when indirection was used before) of preceding fields.
700You can specify an offset relative to the end of the last up-level
701field using
702.Sq \*[Am]
703as a prefix to the offset:
704.Bd -literal -offset indent
7050           string  MZ
706\*[Gt]0x18       leshort \*[Gt]0x3f
707\*[Gt]\*[Gt](0x3c.l)  string  PE\e0\e0    PE executable (MS-Windows)
708# immediately following the PE signature is the CPU type
709\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Am]0       leshort 0x14c     for Intel 80386
710\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Am]0       leshort 0x184     for DEC Alpha
711.Ed
712.Pp
713Indirect and relative offsets can be combined:
714.Bd -literal -offset indent
7150             string  MZ
716\*[Gt]0x18         leshort \*[Lt]0x40
717\*[Gt]\*[Gt](4.s*512)   leshort !0x014c MZ executable (MS-DOS)
718# if it's not COFF, go back 512 bytes and add the offset taken
719# from byte 2/3, which is yet another way of finding the start
720# of the extended executable
721\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Am](2.s-514) string  LE      LE executable (MS Windows VxD driver)
722.Ed
723.Pp
724Or the other way around:
725.Bd -literal -offset indent
7260                 string  MZ
727\*[Gt]0x18             leshort \*[Gt]0x3f
728\*[Gt]\*[Gt](0x3c.l)        string  LE\e0\e0  LE executable (MS-Windows)
729# at offset 0x80 (-4, since relative offsets start at the end
730# of the up-level match) inside the LE header, we find the absolute
731# offset to the code area, where we look for a specific signature
732\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt](\*[Am]0x7c.l+0x26) string  UPX     \eb, UPX compressed
733.Ed
734.Pp
735Or even both!
736.Bd -literal -offset indent
7370                string  MZ
738\*[Gt]0x18            leshort \*[Gt]0x3f
739\*[Gt]\*[Gt](0x3c.l)       string  LE\e0\e0 LE executable (MS-Windows)
740# at offset 0x58 inside the LE header, we find the relative offset
741# to a data area where we look for a specific signature
742\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Am](\*[Am]0x54.l-3)  string  UNACE  \eb, ACE self-extracting archive
743.Ed
744.Pp
745If you have to deal with offset/length pairs in your file, even the
746second value in a parenthesized expression can be taken from the file itself,
747using another set of parentheses.
748Note that this additional indirect offset is always relative to the
749start of the main indirect offset.
750.Bd -literal -offset indent
7510                 string       MZ
752\*[Gt]0x18             leshort      \*[Gt]0x3f
753\*[Gt]\*[Gt](0x3c.l)        string       PE\e0\e0 PE executable (MS-Windows)
754# search for the PE section called ".idata"...
755\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Am]0xf4          search/0x140 .idata
756# ...and go to the end of it, calculated from start+length;
757# these are located 14 and 10 bytes after the section name
758\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt](\*[Am]0xe.l+(-4)) string       PK\e3\e4 \eb, ZIP self-extracting archive
759.Ed
760.Pp
761If you have a list of known values at a particular continuation level,
762and you want to provide a switch-like default case:
763.Bd -literal -offset indent
764# clear that continuation level match
765\*[Gt]18	clear
766\*[Gt]18	lelong	1	one
767\*[Gt]18	lelong	2	two
768\*[Gt]18	default	x
769# print default match
770\*[Gt]\*[Gt]18	lelong	x	unmatched 0x%x
771.Ed
772.Sh SEE ALSO
773.Xr file __CSECTION__
774\- the command that reads this file.
775.Sh BUGS
776The formats
777.Dv long ,
778.Dv belong ,
779.Dv lelong ,
780.Dv melong ,
781.Dv short ,
782.Dv beshort ,
783and
784.Dv leshort
785do not depend on the length of the C data types
786.Dv short
787and
788.Dv long
789on the platform, even though the Single
790.Ux
791Specification implies that they do.
792However, as OS X Mountain Lion has passed the Single
793.Ux
794Specification validation suite, and supplies a version of
795.Xr file __CSECTION__
796in which they do not depend on the sizes of the C data types and that is
797built for a 64-bit environment in which
798.Dv long
799is 8 bytes rather than 4 bytes, presumably the validation suite does not
800test whether, for example
801.Dv long
802refers to an item with the same size as the C data type
803.Dv long .
804There should probably be
805.Dv type
806names
807.Dv int8 ,
808.Dv uint8 ,
809.Dv int16 ,
810.Dv uint16 ,
811.Dv int32 ,
812.Dv uint32 ,
813.Dv int64 ,
814and
815.Dv uint64 ,
816and specified-byte-order variants of them,
817to make it clearer that those types have specified widths.
818.\"
819.\" From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
820.\" Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg
821.\" Subject: /etc/magic's format isn't well documented
822.\" Message-ID: <2752@sun.uucp>
823.\" Date: 3 Sep 85 08:19:07 GMT
824.\" Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
825.\" Lines: 136
826.\"
827.\" Here's a manual page for the format accepted by the "file" made by adding
828.\" the changes I posted to the S5R2 version.
829.\"
830.\" Modified for Ian Darwin's version of the file command.
831