![]() Example usage of file | |
Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
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Initial release | 1973Unix Research Version 4; 1986 open-source reimplementation | as part of
Stable release | 5.46[1] ![]() |
Repository | github |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, IBM i |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | File type detector |
License | BSD license, CDDL Plan 9: MIT License |
Website | darwinsys |
The file
command is a standard program of Unix and Unix-like operating systems for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file.