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mimetype

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

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