Automatically determine the MIME type of a file.
- Print the MIME type of a given file:
mimetype {{path/to/file}}
- Display only the MIME type, and not the filename:
mimetype --brief {{path/to/file}}
- Display a description of the MIME type:
mimetype --describe {{path/to/file}}
- Determine the MIME type of stdin (does not check a filename):
{{some_command}} | mimetype --stdin
- Display debug information about how the MIME type was determined:
mimetype --debug {{path/to/file}}
- Display all the possible MIME types of a given file in confidence order:
mimetype --all {{path/to/file}}
- Explicitly specify the 2-letter language code of the output:
mimetype --language {{path/to/file}}