diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b254ed0..cc1dcff 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "jobserver",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cfb"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ca453e8624711b2f0f4eb47076a318feda166252a827ee25d067b43de83dcba0"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+ "uuid",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cfg-if"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -127,6 +137,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "infer"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ea70330449622910e0edebab230734569516269fb32342fb0a8956340fa48c6c"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfb",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "jobserver"
 version = "0.1.24"
@@ -187,6 +206,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "atty",
  "bzip2",
  "flate2",
+ "infer",
  "lazy_static",
  "libc",
  "rand",
@@ -364,6 +384,12 @@ version = "0.2.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8ccb82d61f80a663efe1f787a51b16b5a51e3314d6ac365b08639f52387b33f3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "uuid"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bc5cf98d8186244414c848017f0e2676b3fcb46807f6668a97dfe67359a3c4b7"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vcpkg"
 version = "0.2.15"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 411e0a9..f1d3a9f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ zstd        = { version = "0.9.0", default-features = false, features = ["thin"]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.2.0"
+infer = "0.5.0"
 rand = { version = "0.8.3", default-features = false, features = ["small_rng", "std"] }
 
 [profile.release]
diff --git a/src/archive/tar.rs b/src/archive/tar.rs
index 8dc5d1e..38f6c2f 100644
--- a/src/archive/tar.rs
+++ b/src/archive/tar.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+//! Contains Tar-specific building and unpacking functions
+
 use std::{
     env, fs,
     io::prelude::*,
diff --git a/src/archive/zip.rs b/src/archive/zip.rs
index e25e7f5..ba43f73 100644
--- a/src/archive/zip.rs
+++ b/src/archive/zip.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+//! Contains Zip-specific building and unpacking functions
+
 use std::{
     env, fs,
     io::{self, prelude::*},
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ use crate::{
 
 use self::utf8::get_invalid_utf8_paths;
 
+/// Unpacks the archive given by `archive` into the folder given by `into`.
 pub fn unpack_archive<R>(mut archive: ZipArchive<R>, into: &Path, flags: &oof::Flags) -> crate::Result<Vec<PathBuf>>
 where
     R: Read + Seek,
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 59618bc..b6fd3b7 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ pub use error::{Error, Result};
 
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 
+/// The status code ouch has when an error is encountered
 pub const EXIT_FAILURE: i32 = libc::EXIT_FAILURE;
 
 const VERSION: &'static str = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");
diff --git a/src/oof/util.rs b/src/oof/util.rs
index 00d874b..5479818 100644
--- a/src/oof/util.rs
+++ b/src/oof/util.rs
@@ -13,3 +13,21 @@ pub fn trim_single_hyphen(flag_text: &str) -> &str {
     chars.next(); // Skipping 1 char
     chars.as_str()
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::trim_double_hyphen;
+    use super::trim_single_hyphen;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn _trim_double_hyphen() {
+        assert_eq!(trim_double_hyphen("--flag"), "flag");
+        assert_eq!(trim_double_hyphen("--verbose"), "verbose");
+        assert_eq!(trim_double_hyphen("--help"), "help");
+    }
+
+    fn _trim_single_hyphen() {
+        assert_eq!(trim_single_hyphen("-vv"), "vv");
+        assert_eq!(trim_single_hyphen("-h"), "h");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs b/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs
index 724ef46..06eba2e 100644
--- a/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs
+++ b/tests/compress_and_decompress.rs
@@ -4,12 +4,57 @@ use std::{
     env, fs,
     io::prelude::*,
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
+    time::Duration,
 };
 
 use ouch::{cli::Command, commands::run, oof};
 use rand::{rngs::SmallRng, RngCore, SeedableRng};
+use tempfile::NamedTempFile;
 use utils::*;
 
+#[test]
+/// Makes sure that the files ouch produces are what they claim to be, checking their
+/// types through MIME sniffing.
+fn sanity_check_through_mime() {
+    // Somehow this test causes test failures when run in parallel with test_each_format
+    // This is a temporary hack that should allow the tests to pass while this bug isn't solved.
+    std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100));
+
+    let temp_dir = tempfile::tempdir().expect("to build a temporary directory");
+
+    let mut test_file = NamedTempFile::new_in(temp_dir.path()).expect("to be able to build a temporary file");
+
+    let bytes = generate_random_file_content(&mut SmallRng::from_entropy());
+    test_file.write_all(&bytes).expect("to successfully write bytes to the file");
+
+    let formats = ["tar", "zip", "tar.gz", "tar.bz", "tar.bz2", "tar.lzma", "tar.xz", "tar.zst"];
+
+    let expected_mimes = [
+        "application/x-tar",
+        "application/zip",
+        "application/gzip",
+        "application/x-bzip2",
+        "application/x-bzip2",
+        "application/x-xz",
+        "application/x-xz",
+        "application/zstd",
+    ];
+
+    assert_eq!(formats.len(), expected_mimes.len());
+
+    for (format, expected_mime) in formats.iter().zip(expected_mimes.iter()) {
+        let temp_dir_path = temp_dir.path();
+        let paths_to_compress = &[test_file.path().into()];
+
+        let compressed_file_path = compress_files(temp_dir_path, paths_to_compress, format);
+
+        let sniffed =
+            infer::get_from_path(compressed_file_path).expect("the file to be read").expect("the MIME to be found");
+
+        assert_eq!(&sniffed.mime_type(), expected_mime);
+    }
+}
+
 #[test]
 /// Tests each format that supports multiple files with random input.
 /// TODO: test the remaining formats.