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mimetype — Automatically determine the MIME type of a file. More information: <https://manned.org/mimetype>.

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Problem

How to use the mimetype command: Automatically determine the MIME type of a file. More information: <https://manned.org/mimetype>.

Solution

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}}

Code Snippets

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}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/mimetype

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