wtft - What's the file type?

wtft is a simple command line tool that helps you figure out what the real file type is. It does this by looking at the file's magic number and comparing it to a list of known magic numbers.

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pre-requisites: go 1.19 or higher

To build the cli: make build-cli or go build -o wtft ./main.go. Here is a guide to output to other platforms

Example usage:

wtft -f /path/to/png/file.png will output the following json:

{
    "name": "PNG",
    "ext": "png",
    "mime_type": "image/png",
    "supported_extensions": [
        "png"
    ]
}

Example error:

$ wtft -f /path/to/unknown/file
No file type could be found for file. File may be corrupt or signature does not exist in wtft codebase yet...

All errors will exit with code 1

matsilva/wtft

wtft - What's the file type?

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