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Re: Using Magic Numbers

by Abigail-II (Bishop)
on May 07, 2003 at 19:31 UTC ( [id://256359]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Using Magic Numbers
in thread Using Magic Numbers

IIRC, Dominus wrote a Perl implementation of "file" for Tom's "Perl Power Tools" project. If I were to ever do what the OP is doing, I'd settle for `file $file`, and modifying /etc/magic if needed.

Abigail

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