mimetype

> Automatically determine the MIME type of a file.

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):

{some_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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