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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.
                      3: .\"
                      4: .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided
                      5: .\" that: (1) source distributions retain this entire copyright notice and
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                      8: .\" University of California, Berkeley and its contributors'' in the
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                     12: .\" be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
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                     14: .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
                     15: .\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
                     16: .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
                     17: .\"
                     18: .\"     @(#)file.1     6.3 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
                     19: .\"
                     20: .Dd July 24, 1990
                     21: .Dt FILE 1
                     22: .Os BSD 4.4
                     23: .Sh NAME
                     24: .Nm file
                     25: .Nd identify file content
                     26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     27: .Nm file
                     28: .Ar
                     29: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     30: .Nm File
                     31: tests the given argument(s) and reports
                     32: the content type(s). 
                     33: If
                     34: the file type is text,
                     35: it attempts to determine
                     36: the type of text (e.g.
                     37: .Xr csh 1
                     38: commands or C code)
                     39: .Pp
                     40: As several tests
                     41: are used and
                     42: .Nm file
                     43: stops testing on the first successful one,
                     44: it can make mistakes.
                     45: .Pp
                     46: .Nm File
                     47: does not recognize Pascal or LISP.
                     48: .\" .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                     49: .Sh HISTORY
                     50: A
                     51: .Nm file
                     52: command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

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