uti

uti a command line tool that provides helpers to interact with Universal Type Identifiers on macOS. It allows you to get the UTI of a file on disk, and to check that a type conforms to the specified UTI.

Usage

uti: a tool to interact with universal type identifiers

🌍  source code: https://github.com/alexaubry/uti
📝  author: Alexis Aubry (https://alexaubry.fr)

commands:
- get: Get the Uniform Type Identifier of a file.
usage: uti get <file URL>
example: uti get ~/Desktop

- conforms: Check that a file conforms to the specified type.
usage: uti <UTI to check> <file URL>
example: uti conforms public.folder ~/Desktop

- help: Print the instructions to use the program.
usage: uti help

Installation

With Homebrew

You can install the utility using Homebrew by running this in a terminal.

brew install alexaubry/formulas/uti

From Source

To build the program for source and install it on your machine, run this in a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/alexaubry/uti
cd uti
make build
make test

Contributing

The utility was built as a Swift package. It is composed of two targets: the framework that contains the logic, and and an executable that launches that logic.

Requirements

• To develop uti, you will need Swift 4.1.
• Please make sure to read the Contribution Guide before contributing