File::LibMagic.3pm

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Version: 2005-04-24 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

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NAME

File::LibMagic - Perlwrapper for libmagic

SYNOPSIS

The easy way: 
           use File::LibMagic ':easy';
 
           print MagicBuffer("Hello World\n"),"\n";
           # returns "ASCII text"
 
           print MagicFile("/bin/ls"),"\n";
           # returns "ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV)"
           # on my system

To use all capabilities of libmagic use

           use File::LibMagic ':complete';
 
           my $handle=magic_open(0);
           my $ret   =magic_load($handle,"");
 
           print magic_buffer($handle,"Hello World\n"),"\n";
           print magic_file($handle,"/bin/ls"),"\n";
 
           magic_close($handle);

Please have a look at the files in the example-directory.

ABSTRACT

The "File::LibMagic" is a simple perl interface to libmagic from the file-4.x package from Christos Zoulas (ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/)

DESCRIPTION

The "File::LibMagic" is a simple perlinterface to libmagic from the file-4.x package from Christos Zoulas (ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/).

EXPORT

None by default.

BUGS

I'm still learning perlxs ...
still no real error handling (printf is not enough)
magic_load is not implemented yet

HISTORY

April 2004 initial Release

April 2005 version 0.81

Thanks to James Olin Oden (joden@lee.k12.nc.us) for his help. Thanks to Nathan Hawkins <utsl@quic.net> for his port to 64-bit systems.

AUTHOR

Andreas Fitzner <fitzner@informatik.hu-berlin.de> Copyright 2005 by Andreas Fitzner

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.