I suppose one could try that -- it could very well be slow, though (having to open, read, close, etc all those files..) I've got some directories on quux.org with hundreds of files that make really good test cases for performance :-) On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 06:25 PM, Ralph Furmaniak wrote: > > You can figure out the mime-type from the extension (as umn gopherd > does), but I was wondering if it would make any sense to try 'file -i' > >