File command
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The file command is a file format identification utility that has been a part of Unix distributions for many years.
The Debian manpage gives an overview of its functionality.
The program source includes a database of heuristics for determining file types, which includes a variety of 'magic numbers' which characterise files. This database is not portable, but is potentially adaptable.
Links
- File Command web site
- Source code releases
- file on Wikipedia
- Read-only mirror of file CVS repository - file - GitHub
- Magdir path on read-only mirror of file CVS repo - GitHub (a database of magic numbers - generally sorted by topic)
- FreeBSD port tree (referring to the porting of the original distribution into FreeBSD)
- binwalk project repository on GitHub (uses
libmagicwhich is part offilepackage to identify, and optionally extract, files and data that have been embedded inside of other files)
