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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:44:02 -0700
To: "Eric Butler" <eric AT extremeboredom DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: an "open" command which resolves file associations
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Eric,

There is a stock Unix tool, "file," that identifies file types based on 
content. It is driven by patterns specified in the file /usr/share/magic 
(which gets compiled into a binary form that the "file" command uses).

You can add to the "magic" descriptions if you have file formats not 
covered (there are over 1000 types covered by the magic file delivered with 
Cygwin).

Consult file(1) and magic(4) for details.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:23 2002-07-21, Eric Butler wrote:
>Does anyone know of any tools that figures out what type of file something
>is without relying on it having an extention like konqeror ?


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