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File/LibMagic
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DESCRIPTION
Interface to libmagic (from the file-4.x or file-5.x package from
Christos Zoulas, ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/).
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES/PREREQUISITES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
o) file-4.x or file-5x and the associated libmagic
(ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/)
o) on some systems zlib is required.
o) COMMON PROBLEM: magic.h is not correctly placed (e.g. in /usr/include/
or /usr/local/include/)
RELATED MODULES
I created File::LibMagic because I wanted to use libmagic (from file-4.x) and
the otherwise great Module File::MMagic only works with file-3.x. In file-3.x
exists no libmagic but an ascii file (/etc/magic) in which all data (magic
numbers, etc.) is included. File::MMagic parsed this ascii file at each request
and is thus releativly slow. Also it can not use the new data from file-4.x
or file-5.x.
File::MimeInfo::Magic uses the magic file from freedesktop which is encoded
completely in XML, and thus not the fastest approach (
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2003-December/msg00260.html
).
File::Type uses a relativly small magic file, which is directly hacked into
the module code. Thus it is quite fast. It is also mod_perl save.
It may be the right choice for you, but the databasis is quite small relative
to the file-package.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Author: Andreas Fitzner <fitzner@informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
May 2009
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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