TrId2Console Papyrus7914

utility

Use this command to install TrId2Console:

winget install --id=Papyrus7914.TrId2Console -e

Console utility to detect a file type based on its content. This tool is similar to TrID and UNIX File.

TrId2-file-type-identifier

C++ library and Console utility to detect a file type based on its content. This tool is similar to TrID and UNIX File.

Features

Database of ~21500 file types
Very fast
Supports Windows, Linux, macOS
The C++ library is header only and has no dependencies

How it works

The tool reads up to 10MB of the file, goes through its database, and finds the most likely file-type candidates.

How to use the console tool

Download the executable from the latest release
- TrId2Console-windows-x64 - portable Windows x64 executable (requires Windows 10 or higher)
- TrId2Console-linux-x64 - portable Linux x64 executable
- TrId2Console-macos-arm64 - portable macOS arm64 executable
The file identification database is compiled into the executable. Thus, the executable is completely portable.
Usage examples (use --help parameter to get the usage information):

&gt; TrId2Console C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll
 33.2% (exe) Win64 Executable (generic)
    Url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable
    MimeType: application/octet-stream
 25.6% (exe) Win16 NE executable (generic)
    Url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0
    MimeType: application/octet-stream
 10.5% (icl) Windows Icons Library (generic)
    Url: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Icon_library
    MimeType: image/x-ms-icl
 10.3% (exe) OS/2 Executable (generic)
    Url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
    MimeType: application/octet-stream
 10.2% (exe) Generic Win/DOS Executable
    MimeType: application/octet-strea

&gt; TrId2Console.exe --json C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll
[
  {
    "Description": "",
    "FileNameExtensions": [
      "exe"
    ],
    "MimeType": "application/octet-stream",
    "Name": "Win64 Executable (generic)",
    "Probability": 33.19083969465649,
    "Url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable"
  },
...

How to use the C++ library

Download TrId2Lib.zip from the latest release and add the extracted folder to your project
The file type database is included in the library. It is located in TrId2Database.h header
Look at example.cpp for how to use the library

How to work with the codebase

Required: Python with PyYAML
Open the repository with any IDE that supports CMake. No extra configuration steps are required.