Finally, the main intention behind writing it, is not relying on file extensions to determine if a file is an image or not as extensions are useless in Linux

... that is not true..... .htm, .html, .jpg,. gif,.bmp,.png,...etc..extensions...etc....are all very important in the linux file system..... what is useless in linux is the old 8.3 MSDOS file types by extension.... where executables or text type is set by the 8.3 conventions

...... in linux, if i try to open a JPG named "somejpeg" it will not be recognized without expensive calles to mime type programs...... even in linux you need "someimage.jpg" for it to be recognized

.....only in disk filesystem forensics (like recovering data from a broken filesystem) would you really need to manually ascertain file type

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In reply to Re: Answer: How do I find the type of an image? by zentara
in thread How do I find the type of an image? by ahmad

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