puremagic - Man Page

manual page for puremagic 2.2.0

Description

usage: puremagic [-h] [-m] [-v] [-e EXTENSION] [--version] [files ...]

puremagic is a pure python file identification module. It looks for matching magic numbers in the file to locate the file type.

positional arguments

files

options

-h,  --help

show this help message and exit

-m,  --mime

Return the mime type instead of file type

-v,  --verbose

Print verbose output

-e,  --extension EXTENSION

Look up MIME type for a file extension (e.g. pdf or .pdf)

--version

show program's version number and exit

Info

April 2026 puremagic 2.2.0