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 once again updates and enhances many magic files. It is now possible to preserve the access time of files analyzed. Furthermore, this release removes large file support, as it was breaking things on most OSs. There are also fixes for the exit code and for unmapping of mmap'd files.
