guess-sig

Display matching byte sequences in file headers.

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import guessSig from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/guess-sig';
</script>

Forensics utility to help identify file signatures of undocumented and proprietary binary formats.

guess-sig /path/to/files/*

Its output looks like this:

FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01 01 __ 00 __
00 __ 00 00 FF __ 00 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

See the program's manpage for options and usage examples:

man guess-sig