#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # archive: file(1) magic for archive formats (see also "msdos" for self- # extracting compressed archives) # # cpio, ar, arc, arj, hpack, lha/lharc, rar, squish, uc2, zip, zoo, etc. # pre-POSIX "tar" archives are handled in the C code. # POSIX tar archives 257 string ustar\0 POSIX tar archive 257 string ustar\040\040\0 GNU tar archive # cpio archives # # Yes, the top two "cpio archive" formats *are* supposed to just be "short". # The idea is to indicate archives produced on machines with the same # byte order as the machine running "file" with "cpio archive", and # to indicate archives produced on machines with the opposite byte order # from the machine running "file" with "byte-swapped cpio archive". # # The SVR4 "cpio(4)" hints that there are additional formats, but they # are defined as "short"s; I think all the new formats are # character-header formats and thus are strings, not numbers. 0 short 070707 cpio archive 0 short 0143561 byte-swapped cpio archive 0 string 070707 ASCII cpio archive (pre-SVR4 or odc) 0 string 070701 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) 0 string 070702 ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with CRC) # other archives 0 long 0177555 very old archive 0 short 0177555 very old PDP-11 archive 0 long 0177545 old archive 0 short 0177545 old PDP-11 archive 0 long 0100554 apl workspace 0 string = archive # MIPS archive (needs to go first) # 0 string !\n__________E MIPS archive >20 string U with MIPS Ucode members >21 string L with MIPSEL members >21 string B with MIPSEB members >19 string L and an EL hash table >19 string B and an EB hash table >22 string X -- out of date 0 string -h- Software Tools format archive text # # XXX - why are there multiple thingies? Note that 0x213c6172 is # "! current ar archive # 0 long 0x213c6172 archive file # # and for SVR3.1 archives, we have: # # 0 string \ System V Release 1 ar archive # 0 string = archive # 0 string = archive # # XXX - did Aegis really store shared libraries, breakpointed modules, # and absolute code program modules in the same format as new-style # "ar" archives? # 0 string ! current ar archive >8 string __.SYMDEF random library >8 string debian-split part of multipart Debian package >8 string debian-binary Debian binary package >0 belong =65538 - pre SR9.5 >0 belong =65539 - post SR9.5 >0 beshort 2 - object archive >0 beshort 3 - shared library module >0 beshort 4 - debug break-pointed module >0 beshort 5 - absolute code program module 0 string \ System V Release 1 ar archive 0 string = archive # # XXX - from "vax", which appears to collect a bunch of byte-swapped # thingies, to help you recognize VAX files on big-endian machines; # with "leshort", "lelong", and "string", that's no longer necessary.... # 0 belong 0x65ff0000 VAX 3.0 archive 0 belong 0x3c61723e VAX 5.0 archive # 0 long 0x213c6172 archive file 0 lelong 0177555 very old VAX archive 0 leshort 0177555 very old PDP-11 archive # # XXX - "pdp" claims that 0177545 can have an __.SYMDEF member and thus # be a random library (it said 0xff65 rather than 0177545). # 0 lelong 0177545 old VAX archive >8 string __.SYMDEF random library 0 leshort 0177545 old PDP-11 archive >8 string __.SYMDEF random library # 0 string = archive # # From "pdp": # 0 lelong 0x39bed PDP-11 old archive 0 lelong 0x39bee PDP-11 4.0 archive # 0 string -h- Software Tools format archive text # ARC archiver, from Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) # # The first byte is the magic (0x1a), byte 2 is the compression type for # the first file (0x01 through 0x09), and bytes 3 to 15 are the MS-DOS # filename of the first file (null terminated). Since some types collide # we only test some types on basis of frequency: 0x08 (83%), 0x09 (5%), # 0x02 (5%), 0x03 (3%), 0x04 (2%), 0x06 (2%). 0x01 collides with terminfo. 0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000081a ARC archive data, dynamic LZW 0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000091a ARC archive data, squashed 0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000021a ARC archive data, uncompressed 0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000031a ARC archive data, packed 0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000041a ARC archive data, squeezed 0 lelong&0x8080ffff 0x0000061a ARC archive data, crunched # Acorn archive formats (Disaster prone simpleton, m91dps@ecs.ox.ac.uk) # I can't create either SPARK or ArcFS archives so I have not tested this stuff # [GRR: the original entries collide with ARC, above; replaced with combined # version (not tested)] #0 byte 0x1a RISC OS archive #>1 string archive (ArcFS format) 0 string \032archive RISC OS archive (ArcFS format) # ARJ archiver (jason@jarthur.Claremont.EDU) 0 leshort 0xea60 ARJ archive data >5 byte x \b, v%d, >8 byte &0x04 multi-volume, >8 byte &0x10 slash-switched, >8 byte &0x20 backup, >34 string x original name: %s, >7 byte 0 os: MS-DOS >7 byte 1 os: PRIMOS >7 byte 2 os: Unix >7 byte 3 os: Amiga >7 byte 4 os: Macintosh >7 byte 5 os: OS/2 >7 byte 6 os: Apple ][ GS >7 byte 7 os: Atari ST >7 byte 8 os: NeXT >7 byte 9 os: VAX/VMS >3 byte >0 %d] # HA archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu) # This is a really bad format. A file containing HAWAII will match this... #0 string HA HA archive data, #>2 leshort =1 1 file, #>2 leshort >1 %u files, #>4 byte&0x0f =0 first is type CPY #>4 byte&0x0f =1 first is type ASC #>4 byte&0x0f =2 first is type HSC #>4 byte&0x0f =0x0e first is type DIR #>4 byte&0x0f =0x0f first is type SPECIAL # HPACK archiver (Peter Gutmann, pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz) 0 string HPAK HPACK archive data # JAM Archive volume format, by Dmitry.Kohmanyuk@UA.net 0 string \351,\001JAM\ JAM archive, >7 string >\0 version %.4s >0x26 byte =0x27 - >>0x2b string >\0 label %.11s, >>0x27 lelong x serial %08x, >>0x36 string >\0 fstype %.8s # LHARC/LHA archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu) 2 string -lh0- LHarc 1.x archive data [lh0] 2 string -lh1- LHarc 1.x archive data [lh1] 2 string -lz4- LHarc 1.x archive data [lz4] 2 string -lz5- LHarc 1.x archive data [lz5] # [never seen any but the last; -lh4- reported in comp.compression:] 2 string -lzs- LHa 2.x? archive data [lzs] 2 string -lh - LHa 2.x? archive data [lh ] 2 string -lhd- LHa 2.x? archive data [lhd] 2 string -lh2- LHa 2.x? archive data [lh2] 2 string -lh3- LHa 2.x? archive data [lh3] 2 string -lh4- LHa (2.x) archive data [lh4] 2 string -lh5- LHa (2.x) archive data [lh5] >20 byte x - header level %d # RAR archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu) 0 string Rar! RAR archive data # SQUISH archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu) 0 string SQSH squished archive data (Acorn RISCOS) # UC2 archiver (Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu) # I can't figure out the self-extracting form of these buggers... 0 string UC2\x1a UC2 archive data # ZIP archives (Greg Roelofs, c/o zip-bugs@wkuvx1.wku.edu) 0 string PK\003\004 Zip archive data >4 byte 0x09 \b, at least v0.9 to extract >4 byte 0x0a \b, at least v1.0 to extract >4 byte 0x0b \b, at least v1.1 to extract >4 byte 0x14 \b, at least v2.0 to extract # Zoo archiver 20 lelong 0xfdc4a7dc Zoo archive data >4 byte >48 \b, v%c. >>6 byte >47 \b%c >>>7 byte >47 \b%c >32 byte >0 \b, modify: v%d >>33 byte x \b.%d+ >42 lelong 0xfdc4a7dc \b, >>70 byte >0 extract: v%d >>>71 byte x \b.%d+ # Shell archives 10 string #\ This\ is\ a\ shell\ archive shell archive text