Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 17:59:17 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: where is magic file for "file" command? Message-ID: <20050515155917.GS2685@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050515153950.94805.qmail@web53601.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050515153950.94805.qmail@web53601.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/