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# 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}}`
