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Old 21st March 2013
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Default any unix utility that determines the right extension of a file ?

Hi everyone !


Suppose you've got a 'extension-less' file and you'd want to a handy tool to determine the right extension of that file ..

Does such a tool exist in Unix Land ?

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"Extension" has no meaning for Unix or Unix-like systems. There are some applications --- such as compilers -- that may arbitrarily choose to use them.

See the file(1) man page. This is the utility you seek.

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Hi teacher jggimi and thanks for your reply !
Yes, in Unix everything is a file .. and yet I need to be able to decide about such files .. before sending them to a target OS : windoze.
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Quote:
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Hi teacher jggimi and thanks for your reply !
Yes, in Unix everything is a file .. and yet I need to be able to decide about such files .. before sending them to a target OS : windoze.
I'm not sure you've understood jggimi's reply (sorry if you did), but he was literally suggesting you use the file utility:
% file testfile
or
% file *
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Code:
$ file Downloads/*iso
Downloads/FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM
filesystem data 'FREEBSD_INSTALL' (bootable)

$ file $(which s2p)
/usr/bin/s2p: a /usr/bin/perl script text executable

$ file /bin/ls
/bin/ls: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1, for OpenBSD,
statically linked, stripped

$ file /bsd    
/bsd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1, statically linked,
not stripped

$ file pf-redir
pf-redir: ASCII text

$ file tip.record
tip.record: ASCII English text, with very long lines, with CRLF,
CR, LF line terminators, with escape sequences, with overstriking

$ file SNPMapping.tab
SNPMapping.tab: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CR line
terminators
See file(1)
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Thank you so much. That's just what I needed !
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You would almost certainly need to customize the output to your needs, but there seems to be a CPAN module that can map file mimeinfo to typical (windows?) file extensions: http://search.cpan.org/~pardus/File-...le/MimeInfo.pm

Quote:
extensions($mimetype)

In list context, returns the list of filename extensions that map to the given mimetype. In scalar context, returns the first extension that is found in the database for this mimetype.
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Thanks thirdm !

Code:
Running Build install
Building File-MimeInfo
Installing /usr/local/man/man1/mimeopen.1
Installing /usr/local/man/man1/mimetype.1
Installing /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/File/MimeInfo.pm
Installing /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/File/MimeInfo/Rox.pm
Installing /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/File/MimeInfo/Applications.pm
Installing /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/File/MimeInfo/Magic.pm
Installing /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/File/MimeInfo/Cookbook.pod
Installing /usr/local/man/man3p/File::MimeInfo.3p
Installing /usr/local/man/man3p/File::MimeInfo::Cookbook.3p
Installing /usr/local/man/man3p/File::MimeInfo::Rox.3p
Installing /usr/local/man/man3p/File::MimeInfo::Magic.3p
Installing /usr/local/man/man3p/File::MimeInfo::Applications.3p
Installing /usr/local/bin/mimeopen
Installing /usr/local/bin/mimetype
  PARDUS/File-MimeInfo/File-MimeInfo-0.16.tar.gz
  ./Build install  -- OK
mimetype works perfectly ..

.iso mimetype seems different though :
When I mv x.iso to x , its size gets smaller and mimetype fails to determine its id -so to speak- it says : text/plain instead of x-cd-image.
The file command however seems smarter , same output for ipxe which is actually ipxe.iso :
Code:
 file ipxe
ipx: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM                          ' (bootable)
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Code:
for f in $(find . type f ); do (mimetype "$f" | tee -a /tmp/files.mimetype); done
Works great! And one can grep the resulting file for "shellscript" to find scripts among a slew of html and jpg etc.. (Among other uses...)
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