Ralph wrote: > As an aside, in digging about freedesktop.org for answers to Michael's > remote-Chrome-opening question, I noticed an alternative to file(1) is > > $ xdg-mime query filetype canned_heat__on_the_road_again.mp3 > audio/mpeg
xdg-mime delegates to the first it finds of gio info, gvfs-info, and gnomevfs-info. gio info relies on the freedesktop shared MIME info database, that's packaged in Red Hat land as shared-mime-info. It'd be easy to have m4/mimetype.m4 look for xdg-mime. I don't see a similar utility to detect encoding. David
