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#+title:  mimetypes
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A MIME type or "media type" is a text string that identifies a particular file format.

It consists of two parts - a type and a subtype - separated by a slash.

For example, the MIME type of a plain text file is:



text/plain

Mimetypes and their interaction can be edited with the [[id:6c1849a8-ab61-4ab1-b2e8-97d1d0dfb0fd][xdg]]  tool.

The [[id:870ccd4f-605f-468f-b094-5c1c953079d3][mimetype-list]] includes a large list of mimetypes and their matching file extensions.