File is a Free Windows program in the Other category, developed by GnuWin32. The current version is 5.03; you can download it safely from its official source with the download button above.
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. Unlike most GUI systems, command-line UNIX systems - with this program leading the charge - don't rely on filename extentions to tell you the type of a file, but look at the file's actual contents. This is, of course, more reliable, but requires a bit of I/O.
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SHA-256: 0DB86B11F518A2CA53AFE7A5D3F9666F4D9B5CB23D7CE4369654CCFC75D2C857
