A tool for determining file types, an alternative to file

Last update: Nov 27, 2022

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Command-line file-rs

Overview

file-rs

a tool for determining file types, an alternative to file

whats done

determining file extension
determining file type
determining file's mime type

usage

$ file-rs -h
$ file-rs <files> <args>

example:

$ file-rs Cargo.toml

benchmarks

my benchmarks shows that file-rs is almost %98 faster than file.

these benchmarks were done:

to calculate the performance difference between file-rs and file
on an old core2 laptop and even on old computers file-rs performs a lot better than file
in this repo(current dir)

1

file:

$ ./benchmark.sh file
94.274010965

file-rs:

$ ./benchmark.sh file-rs
2.444943173

2

file:

$ ./benchmark.sh file
97.173416678

file-rs:

$ ./benchmark.sh file-rs
2.461263894

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Releases(0.1.6)

0.1.6(Dec 3, 2022)

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
0.1.5(Nov 26, 2022)
Changes:

threaded file type detection

prettier output

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
0.1.4(Nov 16, 2022)

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)

Owner

A shellscript, python, c programmer.

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