Primes: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable The "file" command says this about the files in my home directory: Paul-) file * > file.txtīox: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executableįoo.txt: ASCII text, with escape sequences However, some tools (launch menus, and xdg-open included) use additional hints to identify specific file types. Linux does have a system based on analysing the first few bytes of a file ("magic" numbers) because many well-defined formats (executable binary, compressed files, database tables) conform to standards. My comment above about extensions is incomplete.
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