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