File::MMagic - Guess file type

  use File::MMagic;
  use FileHandle;

  $mm = new File::MMagic; # use internal magic file
  # $mm = File::MMagic->new('/etc/magic'); # use external magic file
  # $mm = File::MMagic->new('/usr/share/etc/magic'); # if you use Debian
  $res = $mm->checktype_filename("/somewhere/unknown/file");

  $fh = new FileHandle "< /somewhere/unknown/file2";
  $res = $mm->checktype_filehandle($fh);

  $fh->read($data, 0x8564);
  $res = $mm->checktype_contents($data);

This perl library uses perl5 objects to guess file type from filename and/or filehandle.

checktype_filename(), checktype_filehandle() and checktype_contents returns string contains file type with MIME mediatype format.

File::MMagic->new()

Initializes the module. If no filename is given, the magic numbers stored in File::MMagic are used.

$mm->addSpecials

If a filetype cannot be determined by magic numbers, extra checks are done based on extra regular expressions which can be defined here. The first argument should be the filetype, the remaining arguments should be one or more regular expressions. By default, checks are done for message/news, message/rfc822, text/html, text/x-roff.

$mm->removeSpecials

Removes special regular expressions. Specify one or more filetypes. If no filetypes are specified, all special regexps are removed. Returns a hash containing the removed entries.

$mm->addFileExts

If a filetype cannot be determined by magic numbers, extra checks can be done based on the file extension (actually, a regexp). Two arguments should be geiven: the filename pattern and the corresponding filetype. By default, checks are done for application/x-compress, application/x-bzip2, application/x-gzip, text/html, text/plain

$mm->removeFileExts

Remove filename pattern checks. Specify one or more patterns. If no pattern is specified, all are removed. Returns a hash containing the removed entries.

$mm->addMagicEntry

Add a new magic entry in the object. The format is same as magic(5) file.

  Ex.
  # Add a entry
  $mm->addMagicEntry("0\tstring\tabc\ttext/abc");
  # Add a entry with a sub entry
  $mm->addMagicEntry("0\tstring\tdef\t");
  $mm->addMagicEntry(">10\tstring\tghi\ttext/ghi");

$mm->readMagicHandle

$mm->checktype_filename

$mm->checktype_magic

$mm->checktype_contents

This program is originated from file.kulp that is a production of The Unix Reconstruction Projct. <http://language.perl.com/ppt/index.html> Copyright (c) 1999 NOKUBI Takatsugu <knok@daionet.gr.jp>. There is no warranty for the program. This product includes software developed by the Apache Group for use in the Apache HTTP server project (http://www.apache.org/). License for the program is followed the original software. The license is below. This program is free and open software. You may use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others to do the same, except for the following consideration. I read some of Ian F. Darwin's BSD C implementation, to try to determine how some of this was done since the specification is a little vague. I don't believe that this perl version could be construed as an altered version, but I did grab the tokens for identifying the hard-coded file types in names.h and copied some of the man page. Here's his notice:

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