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NAME
       filetype-compile - compile list of file types for use with filetype(1)

SYNOPSIS
       filetype-compile file_list file_spec

DESCRIPTION
       filetype-compile compiles the text file file_list, which contains
       specifications about file types to use for the filetype(1) program into
       a binary database, which is written to file_spec.  Firstly, the program
       reads in the data from file_list and counts the number of records. Then
       it writes the binary database and counts the number of records in there
       to check if the two numbers match. Because of potential errors due to
       multiple specfiles, filetype-compile reads from the binary database and
       counts the number of records. If all three numbers match, the records
       are sorted and written one final time. Otherwise an error message is
       displayed.

FILES
       /etc/filetype.spec
              Default location of the specfile.

SEE ALSO
       file(1), filetype(1), libfiletype(2).

                                 April 5, 2004             filetype-compile(1)