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Whole document tree Determining a File's Contents Debian comes with a utility that can guess at the contents of a file for you. Although it is not 100% accurate, you can use the following command to explore your system: $ file /bin/cp You should see something like this: /bin/cp: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 386, version 1 Skipping the technical parts, this is an executable file for Intel machines. $ file /etc/init.d/boot The preceding command gives this response: /etc/init.d/boot: Bourne shell script text meaning that this is a text file containing a Bourne shell script.