English

Noun

filetype ‎(plural filetypes)

1. (computing) An identifier for the type of information contained in an electronic format.
2. (computing) A command in certain operating systems that creates a directory of files of a particular type or sorted by type, or that limits the results of a directory search to a particular type.

Translations

Verb

filetype ‎(third-person singular simple present filetypes, present participle filetyping, simple past and past participle filetyped)

1. To assign a type to a file.

   This software searches the directory and attempts to filetype all the files in it.