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 'text/plain'
 ```
 
+## Command line
+
+Identify one or more files using the same libmagic installation as the Python API:
+
+```sh
+python -m magic example.pdf
+python -m magic --mime example.pdf image.jpg
+```
+
+Each result is printed as `filename: description` (or `filename: MIME type`).
+Errors raised by file access or libmagic go to stderr; remaining files are
+still inspected, and the command exits with status 1. Use `--` before a filename
+that starts with a dash. This requires libmagic just like the Python API.
+
 ## Installation
 
 The current stable version of python-magic is available on PyPI and
diff --git a/magic/__main__.py b/magic/__main__.py
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+"""Identify files with ``python -m magic``."""
+
+from __future__ import print_function  # noqa: UP010 - Keep the advertised Python 2.7 syntax.
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+
+from magic import MagicException, from_file
+
+
+def main(argv=None):
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="python -m magic", description="Identify file types using libmagic"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--mime", action="store_true", help="print MIME types instead of descriptions"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("files", nargs="+", help="files to identify")
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+    status = 0
+    for filename in args.files:
+        try:
+            result = from_file(filename, mime=args.mime)
+        except (OSError, MagicException) as error:
+            print("{}: {}".format(filename, error), file=sys.stderr)  # noqa: UP032
+            status = 1
+        else:
+            print("{}: {}".format(filename, result))  # noqa: UP032
+    return status
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/test/cli_test.py b/test/cli_test.py
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+# Keep these tests compatible with the Python 2.7+ matrix in tox.ini.
+# ruff: noqa: UP032
+import importlib
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+import magic
+
+ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+PDF = os.path.join(ROOT, "test", "testdata", "test.pdf")
+CLIResult = namedtuple("CLIResult", "returncode stdout stderr")
+
+
+def run_cli(*args):
+    process = subprocess.Popen(
+        [sys.executable, "-m", "magic"] + list(args),
+        cwd=ROOT,
+        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
+        universal_newlines=True,
+    )
+    stdout, stderr = process.communicate()
+    return CLIResult(process.returncode, stdout, stderr)
+
+
+def test_module_description():
+    result = run_cli(PDF)
+    assert result.returncode == 0
+    assert result.stdout == "{}: {}\n".format(PDF, magic.from_file(PDF))
+    assert result.stderr == ""
+
+
+def test_module_mime():
+    result = run_cli("--mime", PDF)
+    assert result.returncode == 0
+    assert result.stdout == "{}: application/pdf\n".format(PDF)
+    assert result.stderr == ""
+
+
+def test_module_continues_after_missing_file(tmpdir):
+    missing = str(tmpdir.join("not found.pdf"))
+    result = run_cli(missing, PDF)
+    assert result.returncode == 1
+    assert result.stdout == "{}: {}\n".format(PDF, magic.from_file(PDF))
+    assert missing in result.stderr
+    assert "Traceback" not in result.stderr
+
+
+def test_module_handles_unicode_file_name(tmpdir):
+    path = tmpdir.join(b"a unicode \xc3\xa9 file.txt".decode("utf-8"))
+    path.write_binary(b"plain text\n")
+    result = run_cli(str(path))
+    assert result.returncode == 0
+    assert result.stdout == "{}: {}\n".format(path, magic.from_file(str(path)))
+
+
+def test_module_requires_file():
+    result = run_cli()
+    assert result.returncode == 2
+    assert "usage:" in result.stderr
+    assert "Traceback" not in result.stderr
+
+
+def test_module_reports_libmagic_failure(monkeypatch, capsys):
+    cli = importlib.import_module("magic.__main__")
+
+    def fail(filename, mime=False):
+        raise magic.MagicException("libmagic failed")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(cli, "from_file", fail)
+    assert cli.main(["example.pdf"]) == 1
+    stdout, stderr = capsys.readouterr()
+    assert stdout == ""
+    assert "example.pdf" in stderr
+    assert "libmagic failed" in stderr