to. den 11. 02. 2016 klokka 10.09 (+0000) skreiv Pete Biggs: > > > > OK, so I ran the file command, file attachment.dat, and got this > > message: 'very short file (no magic)'. No 'strange' number or strings or > > anything! Extremely educational answers from you, even though it's 'far > > from Evolution'. Or is it. So 'no magic', 'ey? > > The "magic" refers to the mechanism it uses to work out what the file > is. Each type of file has a certain pattern of bytes in it that is > unique - the uniqueness may be by design to help the process (so there > are certain byte sequences at specific points in the file) or it may be > coincidental and found by trial and error. Whatever way it is, then it > looks like "file" is using magic to work out what the file does - hence > the name. If there is not enough content in the file to perform the > magic, then you get that error message. > > If you want to know more, do 'man file' and 'man magic'. > > P.
Great! I will certainly do that! So, I got nothing to worry about then, right? The files aren't dangerous in any way? Perhaps it's because the mail were empty except the encrypted file? At least I've learned about magic, file and Cntr+U. Thanks again! SRW
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