FIDENTIFY(8)

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✨ FIDENTIFY — the file-type detective 💅

okay so bestie, this is fidentify from the Administration Tools manual (section 8, the admin one, we're so official). She looks at a file and is like "oh I know exactly what you are, babe" 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

fidentify — figure out the file type using the PhotoRec database. literally that's her whole thing. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fidentify [--check] [directory|file]

fidentify --version

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so fidentify identifies the file type — the "extension" — by using the exact same database that PhotoRec uses. same brain, different outfit. iykyk 💅

when you give her a file or a directory, fidentify will output the type of that file, or the types of all the files under the directory you specified. she's thorough like that 🫶

if you give her no arguments at all, she'll just go ahead and output the types of the files under the current directory. she's not shy, she'll just start talking ✨

and fr fr, fidentify is similar to file(1). cousins, basically. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --check — check the file format the way PhotoRec does by default. that's it, that's the option, and she ate 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

PhotoRec 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February 2024 Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org> https://www.cgsecurity.org

so this whole page is from 2024, and it's the February edition, coming to you straight from PhotoRec 7.2, Data Recovery Utility 🎀 love that for us. stay iconic, go identify some files, mwah 💖✨🌸

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