magicsort(1)

magicsort1

Categorize files by their file(1) magic

Usage

magicsort directory

Overview

Invokes the system's file utility on all files in directory non-recursively. For each different string that file outputs it will create a sub-directory of that name and move the file in there.

Latest version

This tool is part of Magic Rescue. You can find the latest version at <https://github.com/jbj/magicrescue>

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0–8
  4. 9
  5. 10–13

Author

Jonas Jensen <[email protected]>

From magicrescue 1.1.10+dfsg-2+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.