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Re: where is magic file for "file" command?


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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