mimetype 0.27 Copyright (c) 2003, 2012 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Usage: mimetype [options] [-] files Options: -a, --all Show output of all rules that match the file. TODO: this method now just returns one match for each method (globs, magic, etc.). -b, --brief Do not prepend filenames to output lines (brief mode). --database=*mimedir*:*mimedir*:... Force the program to look in these directories for the shared mime-info database. The directories specified by the basedir specification are ignored. -d, --describe Print file descriptions instead of mime types, this is the default when using "--file-compat". -D, --debug Print debug information about how the mimetype was determined. -f *namefile*, --namefile=*namefile* Read the names of the files to be examined from the file 'namefile' (one per line) before the argument list. --file-compat Make mimetype behave a little more file(1) compatible. This is turned on automatically when you call mimetype by a link called 'file'. A single '-' won't be considered a separator between options and filenames anymore, but becomes identical to "--stdin". ( You can still use '--' as separator, but that is not backward compatible with the original file command. ) Also the default becomes to print descriptions instead of mimetypes. -F *string*, --separator=*string* Use string as custom separator between the file name and its mimetype or description, defaults to ':' . -h, --help -u, --usage Print a help message and exits. -i, --mimetype Use mime types, opposite to "--describe", this is the default when _not_ using "--file-compat". -L, --dereference Follow symbolic links. -l *code*, --language=*code* The language attribute specifies a two letter language code, this makes descriptions being outputted in the specified language. -M, --magic-only Do not check for extensions, globs or inode type, only look at the content of the file. This is particularly useful if for some reason you don't trust the name or the extension a file has. -N, --noalign Do not align output fields. --output-format If you want an alternative output format, you can specify a format string containing the following escapes: %f for the filename %d description %m mime type Alignment is not available when using this, you need to post-process the output to do that. --stdin Determine type of content from STDIN, less powerful then normal file checking because it only uses magic typing. This will happen also if the STDIN filehandle is a pipe. To use this option IO::Scalar needs to be installed. -v, --version Print the version of the program and exit.