Features

• Pure Go, static binary without libmagic
• Cross-platform: No unix specific code like mmap

Install binary

Download from https://github.com/file-go/fil/releases

Install from source

go install github.com/file-go/fil@latest

Usage

Just like unix file command

$ fil <FILE_NAME>

MIT Licence

The code is based on toybox (but it is written in C, and only runs on unix-like OS)

TODO

1. Port more code from toybox/file.c
2. Port more code from filetype/matchers
3. More magic