Trouble with MIME types...

[earthmeLon]

Thank you for your suggestion, but the whole purpose of having MIME types and system functions that use them (ie: file) is so that people don't have to re-invent any wheels.

Also, I do not have every file type available and even if I did, many of them have different variations of signatures. This compilation has (in theory) already been done for me, and I would like to take advantage of the system in place, as well as learn more about it for future endeavors.

[earthmeLon]

I've noticed that Nautilus knows what type of file they are. I was using assogiate to see what my mime-type rules were, but it and nautilus seem to use something different than that which file is using.

[earthmeLon]

Well, I am now trying to figure out how to export gnome mime-types (That both Nautilus and assogiate are aware of) to a magic mime file.

# Magic local data for file(1) command.
# Insert here your local magic data. Format is described in magic(5).
#I really hope I don't have to do this...
20      string          mp4            \b, MPEG v4 system, part 12 revision
!:mime  video/mp4

file -m /etc/magic -ib VID00004.MP4 
video/mp4; charset=binary

I guess that's progress, but I'd really rather export gnome's list somehow.

Any information would be greatly appreciated