Where magic database for filetypes

Question

Where one can download or obtain source of magic database for libmagic (a file command). I have compiled version in /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc but can not find original source file. (Ideally I would like to know where on the Internet is original, NOT system/distribution-specific format of such file.)

I was unable to find it ever after hours of googling.

Thanks

Answer 1

In the sources for the file command (github; ftp). Specifically, in the "magic" subdirectory. There is not a single source file; the database is compiled from multiple sources.

("libmagic" is part of the file package).

Answer 2

The file utility has a GitHub repository at https://github.com/file/file and a homepage at http://www.darwinsys.com/file/

I imagine that any distribution using these sources do so in a modified form. It might even be that the local file utility and the associated libmagic library has diverged significantly from the above sources.

On OpenBSD systems, the libmagic library is available as a port. It will pull the sources from an FTP site associated with the GitHub repository above.