How to check file type?

How to check file type

You can check the file type by using the following command from your shell.

root@admin#file index.php

It will show the following output.

index.php: PHP script text

root@admin#file demo_scoredsep.pl

It will show the following output.

demo_scoredsep.pl: perl script text

The above commands mostly used while we are not sure about file format.

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