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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):
   
  {{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}}