User:Andrew N. Jackson/Test Tool Page

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Description

This is the home page for the open source implementation of the file(1) command that ships with every free operating system (OpenBSD, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc.) and has been ported to most systems where people use free software (including OS/2, DOS, MS Windows, etc.).

User Experiences

• [2019-11-16] Linux and Unix file command tutorial with examples

Development Activity

All development activity is visible on GitHub: https://github.com/file/file/commits

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2026-06-08 20:14:23

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/1303130/FILE5_48 FILE5_48]

by zoulasc

2026-02-27 14:58:13

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/1303130/FILE5_47 FILE5_47]

by zoulasc

2024-11-27 15:37:46

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/1303130/FILE5_46 FILE5_46]

by zoulasc

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2026-07-06 14:44:41

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5429660069b729e9f332c94f4399e4f7b2f97986 Add LMDB]

by zoulasc https://github.com/zoulasc

2026-06-28 23:25:49

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7fdb7bf98852d2357b473bd6d786a2e77dba3e48 Add st_flags printing support.]

by zoulasc https://github.com/zoulasc

2026-06-24 22:10:05

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/61d32c41719a1727a328fd88d4db419f67d95871 PR/174: Nathan Scott: Add sysstat sar data file detection]

by zoulasc https://github.com/zoulasc

2026-06-09 20:39:31

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/b610530d1e68c3dcb4b8255f4cb0b8e66dc3a892 PR/173: neheb: Allow U+0000 (NUL) in UTF-16/32 text detection]

by zoulasc https://github.com/zoulasc

2026-06-08 22:16:44

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/558181b8a3a59644316b6ebd05dd8b82ffd5001f add missing endif]

by zoulasc https://github.com/zoulasc