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file

The file command is ‘a file type guesser’, that is, a command-line tool that tells you in words what kind of data a file contains.

Note

This is an autogenerated page, more detail including examples may be available for this package. Please see the first section of Software on Stanage

After connecting to Stanage (see Establishing a SSH connection), start an interactive session with the following command:

srun --pty bash -i

A version of file can then be made available with one of the following:

module load file/5.43-GCCcore-11.3.0
module load file/5.41-GCCcore-11.2.0

Notes

file was installed using Easybuild, build details can be found in $EBROOTFILE/easybuild with a given module loaded.