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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 17:59:17 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: where is magic file for "file" command?
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On May 15 08:39, airplays55 AT yahoo DOT 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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