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-.\" $File: file.man,v 1.96 2011/07/12 11:23:38 rrt Exp $
-.Dd April 20, 2011
+.\" $File: file.man,v 1.98 2011/12/08 12:12:46 rrt Exp $
+.Dd October 17, 2011
.Dt FILE __CSECTION__
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ option).
.It encoding
Different text encodings for soft magic tests.
.It tokens
-Looks for known tokens inside text files.
+Ignored for backwards compatibility.
.It cdf
Prints details of Compound Document Files.
.It compress
@@ -220,6 +220,19 @@ or at least one filename argument must be present;
to test the standard input, use
.Sq -
as a filename argument.
+Please note that
+.Ar namefile
+is unwrapped and the enclosed filenames are processed when this option is
+encountered and before any further options processing is done.
+This allows one to process multiple lists of files with different command line
+arguments on the same
+.Nm
+invocation.
+Thus if you want to set the delimiter, you need to do it before you specify
+the list of files, like:
+.Dq Fl F Ar @ Fl f Ar namefile ,
+instead of:
+.Dq Fl f Ar namefile Fl F Ar @ .
.It Fl h , Fl Fl no-dereference
option causes symlinks not to be followed
(on systems that support symbolic links).