file
File is a utility that classifies arbitrary files of any type mainly by their contents. It is considered standard on most Unix distributions. It can output either human-readable concise descriptions or MIME types for machine handling.
| Tags | Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Unix Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 03 Jan 2012 18:07
Release Notes: Differentiation of text and binary files has been improved. Hardwired token finding has been transformed into soft magic. Magic priorities have been adjusted, and magic has been added and improved. Minor bugs have been fixed.
- 21 Sep 2011 21:46
Release Notes: Several minor bugs were fixed. Several magic improvements were made, notably for multimedia formats.
- 22 Aug 2011 00:39
Release Notes: The detection of zip files was fixed. Other minor magic enhancements were made. The MIME types of filesystem objects were renamed for consistency with xdg-utils. MingW compilation was fixed.
- 13 Jun 2011 11:55
Release Notes: Several regressions in magic were fixed. A buffer overflow was corrected. The program version is now recorded in only one place. Several documentation improvements were made.
- 02 May 2011 00:10
Release Notes: The Python bindings were updated and fixed. Magic support for OCF (EPUB) files and for lrzip files was added. Zip file magic was adapted for files with unsupported special types. Many more magic updates and fixes were made. Several minor bugs were fixed.
Recent comments
Re: Maintainer?
The addresses I'm sending from are @xaoza.net and @nuix.com.au, but the ISPs are optusnet.com.au and iprimus.com.au (the former being probably the biggest ISP in the country,) respectively.
BTW, sorry to clog up your FM comments, but since there's no other way to send messages... :-/
Re: Maintainer?
If it's not a bounce, then it's doing a good job of looking like one.
(reason: 554 : Client host rejected: Access denied due to mail system abuse)
I'm getting the same error from multiple mail providers on my end, so how are the other messages getting through? In any case do you have a secondary email address?
Maintainer?
I know Christos is supposed to be the maintainer and everything, but if his email bounces everything which is sent to it, how is he to be contacted?
zoulasc
21 Apr 1999 01:06
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