tldr/pages/linux/mimetype.md

mimetype

Automatically determine the MIME type of a file. More information: https://manned.org/mimetype.

• 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):

{{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}}