Linux MIME filetypes

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You can add MIME filetypes to linux by adding files into the ~/.local/share/mime/packages or /usr/local/share/mime/packages (for system-wide mime types). The structure looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
		<mime-type type="text/actionscript">
			<sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
			<comment>Actionscript Source Code</comment>
			<glob pattern="*.as"/>
			<glob pattern="*.as2"/>
			<glob pattern="*.as3"/>
		</mime-type>
	</mime-info>

(details on spec here)

Afterward you need to update your mime database with:

update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime

or

sudo update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime

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