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Re: an "open" command which resolves file associations


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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