complete list of mime-type <-> file extension mapping

http mime-types file-extension
juergen d picture juergen d · Sep 30, 2011 · Viewed 20.6k times · Source

I can't find a complete list of mime-type mappings on the internet. I would like to have a list that refers a file extension to every existing mime type.

The list of all mime-types can be found here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types

but that resource doesn't include the file extension mapping.

I googled a while and couldn't find a mapping list with all mime-types. Only lists with most common ones. In all lists I found for example this entry is missing:

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document   ->  .docx

Does someone know a resource where to find a complete mapping?

Answer

terafl0ps picture terafl0ps · Jun 14, 2014

Using Jürgen's mime.types link and a little command line magic, you can generate the list you want very quickly:

wget -qO- http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types | egrep -v ^# | awk '{ for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i" "$1}}' | sort

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