mimetype
Automatically determine the MIME type of a file. More information: https://manned.org/mimetype.
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Print the MIME type of a given file:
mimetype {{path/to/file}}
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Display only the MIME type, and not the filename:
mimetype --brief {{path/to/file}}
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Display a description of the MIME type:
mimetype --describe {{path/to/file}}
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Determine the MIME type of
stdin
(does not check a filename):
{{command}} | mimetype --stdin
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Display debug information about how the MIME type was determined:
mimetype --debug {{path/to/file}}
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Display all the possible MIME types of a given file in confidence order:
mimetype --all {{path/to/file}}
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Explicitly specify the 2-letter language code of the output:
mimetype --language {{path/to/file}}
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