xdg-utils is described as 'Set of tools that allows applications to easily integrate with the desktop environment of the user, regardless of the specific desktop environment that the user runs' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are 2 alternatives to xdg-utils for Linux, Web-based, BSD, Mac and Windows. The best xdg-utils alternative is TrID. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try TrID or file.
Allows to detect file type by recognition of binary signatures. Database with signatures can be downloaded from author site or trained by user with program named TrIDScan(see at author site).
file is a standard Unix program for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file using magic numbers.
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