update-mime-database(1)

💖 update-mime-database(1) 💖

Manual name: update-mime-database(1), from the X Desktop Group ✨

✨ NAME ✨

okay so update-mime-database is a program that builds the Shared MIME-Info database cache 🧚 it's literally the thing that keeps your file types organized, bestie 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

update-mime-database -h | -v | [ -V | -n ] MIME-DIR

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so update-mime-database is the program in charge of updating the shared mime-info cache. it follows the system laid out in the Shared MIME-Info Database specification from the X Desktop Group, and it's giving main character energy ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -h — slide in and print out a command summary 📝
• -v — print out the version information 🔢
• -V — be verbose 🗣️
• -n — only update if MIME-DIR/packages/ or a file inside that directory is newer than MIME-DIR/version. this one is lowkey perfect for package pre- and post-installation scripts 🫶

👑 ARGUMENTS 👑

• MIME-DIR — this is the directory whose cache update-mime-database should rebuild 💜 it's mandatory if none of the options is provided

💅 AUTHOR 💅

Filip Van Raemdonck (mechanix@debian.org) wrote this manpage for the Debian GNU/Linux project, but it's free for others to use too 🌈

🔥 LICENCE 🔥

Copyright (C) 2002 Thomas Leonard. You may redistribute copies of update-mime-database under the terms of the GNU General Public License. no cap, that's the rule 🍓

bestie, nothing here is for show, this is the whole deal 🙈

Sign-off: Filip Van Raemdonck, 26 Jul 2002, X Desktop Group. Stay iconic, bestie 🦋💖✨