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file is a standard Unix program for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file using magic numbers.

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about file, and it has gotten 9 likes

file was added to AlternativeTo by vermin96 on and this page was last updated . file is sometimes referred to as file (1). 

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build-id can be misleading with different implementations.

Read this some details: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63532346/894319

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file-5.41 has many gaming-related binary patterns.

I don't have anything custom in /etc/magic or /usr/share/misc/magic.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/file

What is file?

file is a standard Unix program for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file using magic numbers.

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