Feature:-Detect-binary-files.md

Detect binary files

The file utility relies on magic to identify a file's format.

It's possible to ask file to not use all its heuristics (which allow it to precisely identify a file) and merely provide a broad categorization -- returned as a mime type. This enables a fairly good determination of whether a file is not text.

⚠️ This is off by default.

To enable, include:

      with:
        use_magic_file: 1

This will be available in v0.0.21

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