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[csnyder]

On 5/10/07, Jon Baer <jonbaer at jonbaer.com> wrote:
> What you're really looking for the is the 'magic' of the bin file.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29
>
> There is a PECL extension for diving into libmagic ...
>
> http://pecl.php.net/package/Fileinfo
>

In the past, I've made use of the unix file command for this.

csnyder$ file -bi Desktop/DSC01060.jpg
image/jpeg

Command above uses -b for brief, and -i to get the mimetype of the file.

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Chris Snyder
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