Extype

Extype is a command line tool that calculates the file type based on its extension.

motivation

while i was learning backend development, with node, i realized that there were many files that i had no idea what class they were, like workflow.yml etc...

So, i decided to create a simple command line tool that would help me solve this.

installation

can you install extype with npm:

npm install -g extype 

usage

when installing it globally, you can run it like this:

extype index.html

or run it with npx:

npx extype index.html

even in the package.json, it would look something like this:

{
    "scripts": {
        "get-extension": "extype"
    }
}

in the terminal:

npm run get-extension ./index.html

example

extype main.css

# output
result: main.css >> CSS

behavior

# help flag is ignored
extype index.html --help

extype ignore all positional arguments, which are after the first argument.

extype index.html --some-opt

# output
error: unsupported option, try --help to see supported options

extype, returns an error, if it finds an incompatible flag/option, oh that it is not inside the --help command.

license

made inder MIT license