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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This release has has been divided into the main file(1) program and libmagic(3), a library that other programs can use directly to get file information without needing to fork and exec file(1).
