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- Command lines have a mime type as their first argument and the rest of the line contains a mime descriptor. For instance: - Command lines have a mime type as their first argument and the rest of the line is blank contains a mime descriptor. For instance, here file suffices are mapped to mime types:

application/java-archive jar
application/mathematica nb
application/msword doc dot

/etc/mime.types is the file in which system-wide mime settings are defined.

Each line in the file is a mime command:

- Lines starting with a hash # are comments.

- Command lines have a mime type as their first argument and the rest of the line is blank contains a mime descriptor. For instance, here file suffices are mapped to mime types:

application/java-archive jar application/mathematica nb application/msword doc dot