Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.25+, H06.03+)

User Commands (d - f)
file(1)
flagged as unknown format.
For text files, the file utility examines the file data and tries to determine what kind of text it con-
tains. The string empty is printed for any file type that has no data.
Standard Output
The type value for each file operand is printed to standard output in the following format:
"%s: %s\n", file, type[,type]...
where type contains one of the following strings:
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File Type Strings
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OSS and Guardian
files that are not
disk files
block special, character special,
directory, fifo, strings
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Empty regular
OSS files
empty
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Regular HP object
files
Archive member, axcel region, binder
region, ELF object format, executable,
Guardian Archive, Guardian COFF
object format, Guardian target,
library, NonStop OSS target, TNS/E PIC
object file, TNS/R object file, TNS/R
PIC object file, OSS archive, process
snapshot, shared runtime library, sym-
bol region, TNS object format, uses
shared runtime library
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Regular text files ASCII text, assembler program text,
commands text, C program text, data or
International Language text, English
text, FORTRAN program text, English
text, EQN, input text, [nr/tr]off, SCCS,
TBL
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Files in the Guar-
dian file system
entry-sequenced, file codes, key-
sequenced, relative, SQL object,
unstructured
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Files with magic
values, cpio or tar
format files
archive, CPIO archive, FrameMaker docu-
ment, FrameMaker MIF file, FrameMaker
MML file, PostScript document, Sun
Binary, TAR archive
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All other files unknown format
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EXAMPLES
1. To show the file type of a Guardian text file, enter:
file /G/vol/subvol/file
This command displays the pathname of the file followed by the file type.
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