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Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> Is there an emacs interface for the unix file(1) command?

Look at the `dired-show-file-type' command; it's binded to the `y' key
in dired mode. Note that you'll have to load the dired-aux library.
-- 
Matthias