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Package: file

Description: Recognize the type of data in a file using "magic" numbers
The file command is "a file type guesser", a command-line tool that tells you in words what kind of data a file contains.
This package contains the file program itself.
Homepage: https://www.darwinsys.com/file/
copyright | Debian changelog | Debian README

Manual pages:

file(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/file

Other packages built from the same source:

libmagic-mgc libmagic1t64

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xkeyboard-config(7) xz(1) xzcat(1)
xzcmp(1) xzdiff(1) xzegrep(1)
xzfgrep(1) xzgrep(1) xzless(1)
xzmore(1) zcat(1) zcmp(1)
zdiff(1) zegrep(1) zerofree(8)
zfgrep(1) zforce(1) zfsslower-bpfcc(8)
zgrep(1) zipdetails(1) zipgrep(1)
zless(1) zmore(1) znew(1)
zstd(1) zstdcat(1) zstdgrep(1)
zstdless(1) zstdmt(1)

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