[Gutsy]Looking for a program that analyzes a file and makes a "best guess" attempt to identify or provide information

[John Toliver]

> It really depends on what you mean by 'analyse' the file. Do you intend to
> actually screen the file content's, to discover something specific on that
> file? If you only want a generic description of "file type", based on a mime
> list, Corey' s suggestion (the 'file' command) should do.

What I mean is if I happen to be working on my system and I uncover a
file I don't recognize, and I'm not sure where it came from alarms go
up.  I'll probably want to scan the daylights out of it for viruses,
but also  I would want to know what information it has in it.  What
program created it.  etc.  And I might not feel comfortable submitting
it to an online service to analyze it.  Maybe it was a data store for
my passwords and I just don't know it etc....

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