[File] "file" as a type filter

[Gordon Messmer]

On 2026-06-21 6:11 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Sure, but you can use -f to supply the list of files and use 
> --mime-type to just print the mime-type and use egrep to select the 
> mime times you want.


You can, and that *might* be good enough for this use case, but we're 
still talking about a byte stream where records are newline delimited 
but might contain newlines, and fields that are colon separated but 
might contain colons.

It would be a lot more reliable if the input was a stream of NUL 
separated records and the output was a stream of NUL separated records.