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# mimetype
> Automatically determine the MIME type of a file.
> More information: <https://manned.org/mimetype>.
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- 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):
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`{{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}}`