How can I find out a file's MIME type (Content-Type)?

Question

Is there a way to find out the MIME type (or is it called \"Content-Type\"?) of a file in a Linux bash script?

The reason I need it is because ImageShack appears to

Answer 1

one of the other tool (besides file) you can use is xdg-mime

eg xdg-mime query filetype

if you have yum,

yum install xdg-utils.noarch

An example comparison of xdg-mime and file on a Subrip(subtitles) file

$ xdg-mime query filetype subtitles.srt
application/x-subrip

$ file --mime-type subtitles.srt
subtitles.srt: text/plain

in the above file only show it as plain text.