Re: querying a MIME database

On 10 Apr 2006 00:28:40 -0700, NUPUL
<nupul.kukreja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
most linux distros have a command update-mime-database, but is there
any way to query this database to determine the application to be used
for a particular type of file?

grep filetype /etc/mailcap
To get the filetype for a particular file, you can use "file -i".


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