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file (Unix command)

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The most popular UNIX tool for determining a file's type from its magic-bytes signature. The Shrine MIME-type plug-in can use it (or Ruby equivalents) as the analyzer to determine MIME type from content rather than from the user-supplied extension.

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file (Unix command) tool
The UNIX `file` command is the canonical tool for detecting type from magic bytes.

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