For example I have picture1.JPG
then another user of my computer change the extension from picture1.JPG
to picture1.PNG
, I am sure that in most cases it will work. My question is this, is there a way to detect if a files extension has been modified?
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Practically outside windows, file extensions matter little.– Journeyman Geek ♦Nov 23, 2015 at 2:26
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duplicate question here superuser.com/questions/274734/…– ABDOApr 26, 2017 at 7:54
2 Answers
The file
program examines the contents of files, showing their actual type (with occasional misses). If you are using a Unix-like system, you probably already have it installed (there is a POSIX description of it, for instance). For Windows, there is a port in GnuWin32 (a little old, but better than nothing).
The program lists each filename, along with the types. All you have to do (with a script would be nice) is to look for mismatches between the two (filename versus description of its type).
Here is some sample output to illustrate:
escher03.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.02
snakes.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
sphere.gif: GIF image data, version 87a, 1120 x 832
spirals.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.00, comment: "U-Lead Systems, Inc."
square_l.gif: GIF image data, version 87a, 634 x 668
st_peter.gif: GIF image data, version 87a, 640 x 480
Just to give you another alternative if you need to work only with images. You can use the command identify
, which belongs to ImageMagick:
$ identify stellarium-000.png
stellarium-000.png PNG 1364x728 1364x728+0+0 8-bit sRGB 248KB 0.000u 0:00.000