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+.\" $OpenBSD: file.1,v 1.41 2015/04/27 11:12:49 jmc Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Nicholas Marriott <nicm@openbsd.org>
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 26 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 27 2015 $
.Dt FILE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.It Fl h
Causes symlinks not to be followed.
.It Fl i , -mime , -mime-type
-Causes the file command to output MIME type strings rather than the more
+Outputs MIME type strings rather than the more
traditional human-readable ones.
Thus it may say
.Dq text/plain
.It Fl L
Causes symlinks to be followed.
.It Fl s
-Instructs
-.Nm
-to attempt to read block and character device files, not only regular files.
+Attempts to read block and character device files, not just regular files.
.It Fl W
Displays warnings when parsing the magic file or applying its tests.
Usually used for debugging.