How to determine type of a file in Linux
In Category Command Line
The command “file” tells you the file type and format. It maintains loads of magics in its database to identify the type of a file. If it can’t determine the file type, it will display whether it is an ASCII file or a binary file.
Here are few examples:
[neo@techpulp ~]# file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped [neo@techpulp ~]# [neo@techpulp ~]# file Videos/Animals/leopard.flash Videos/Animals/leopard.flash: Macromedia Flash Video [neo@techpulp ~]# [neo@techpulp ~]# file MyDocs.zip MyDocs.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract [neo@techpulp ~]# file mantis-1.1.6-1.fc10.noarch.rpm mantis-1.1.6-1.fc10.noarch.rpm: RPM v3 bin mantis-1.1.6-1.fc10 [neo@techpulp ~]#
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