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Re: how to find a file format without extension



On 2006-11-16 12:03 +0000, yuvaraj nagarathinam wrote:
>    could some one please help me in finding the format of a file without the
>    extension.
>    if i give the file as input to a  program it should tell me its format.

The program is called 'file', and you can add entries to /etc/magic to
define extra formats.

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