If a File Extension Is Not in the File Name?

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If a file extension is not in the file name, and not because it is hidden, such as a .pdf, how do you determine its file type?

There is a unix tool called file which tries to guess a filename, which you can use in Linux and Windows (e.g. with mingw) that will show you a filetype, which may or may not be correct. Otherwise if it is a video or audio file, rename it to .mp4 and open it with VLC, it will show you what type it actually is if it can detect it. If everything else fails, open the file with a hex editor and try to guess the type, a lot of file types have specific headers or ids, e.g. a PNG file starts with *PNG or GIF starts with GIF89a

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In Linux, this can be found on the file-extensions line in ls -la and on the name of the file. If the file is not a video or audio, you can try to find out what type it is to help with figuring out what the file might be. Here's a sample (slightly modified) .mp4 video format from /test/. # -f tag = type = video -o out. Raw test.mp4 # -f tag = type = video -o out. Raw /test/ # -a flag = 0 # -I image. Raw out. Raw test/ # -a flag = 0 # -f tag = image. Raw test/ # You can read about the file type in /test/test.mp4, which is actually just a sample of this video (with a couple of extra flags added to the command line): Test.mp4: video/mp4; codecs=”avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.