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.
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Magic format functions were improved and checks
were introduced. The -0 option was added for
output with a zero byte separator. Several further
fixes to the code and to the build process were
made.