This module can be used to determine the mime type of a file; it's a
replacement for File::MMagic
trying to implement the freedesktop specification for using the shared
mime-info database. The package comes with a script called mimetype
that can be used as a file(1) work-alike.
Because this module uses the FreeDesktop MIME database, it's most
suited for use in perl scripts that run on a desktop OS; in fact,
this module is typically pre-installed on Debian and Ubuntu OSes
so you can use its command line script mimeopen to open files in
the GUI just like you can use open on macOS.
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
This module expects the freedesktop mime database to be installed, some linux distributions include it, otherwise it can obtained from:
http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info
This module requires these other modules which can be obtained from the CPAN if they are not already installed on your system:
- Carp
- Exporter
- Fcntl
- Pod::Usage
- File::Basename
- File::BaseDir
- File::DesktopEntry
Copyright (c) 2003, 2008 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.