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magic(5) entry #3

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daxim opened this issue Oct 14, 2013 · 1 comment

daxim commented Oct 14, 2013

Contribute a description of the %YAML header in magic(5) format to libmagic so that the file(1) command etc. may recognise YAML files.

http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
http://mx.gw.com/mailman/listinfo/file

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dupuy commented May 2, 2014

I've had decent success with file -m yaml.magic, where yaml.magic is the following:


#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# $File$
# yaml:  file(1) magic for Yet Another Markup Language
#

0   string/b    %YAML\      YAML
!:mime  text/yaml
>6  regex       [12]\.[0-9] version %s document text

0   string      ---\n       YAML document text
!:mime  text/yaml

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