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file

Determine file type. More information: https://manned.org/file.
  • Give a description of the type of the specified file. Works fine for files with no file extension:
    file {{path/to/file}}
  • Look inside a zipped file and determine the file type(s) inside:
    file -z {{foo.zip}}
  • Allow file to work with special or device files:
    file -s {{path/to/file}}
  • Don't stop at first file type match; keep going until the end of the file:
    file -k {{path/to/file}}
  • Determine the MIME encoding type of a file:
    file -i {{path/to/file}}

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