NAME
File::MimeInfo::Rox - Open files by mimetype "Rox style"
SYNOPSIS
use File::MimeInfo::Magic;
use File::MimeInfo::Rox qw/:magic/;
# open some file with the appropriate program
mime_system($somefile);
# more verbose version
my $mt = mimetype($somefile)
|| die "Could not find mimetype for $somefile\n";
mime_system($somefile, $mt)
|| die "No program to open $somefile available\n";
DESCRIPTION
This module tries to mimic the behaviour of the rox file browser http://rox.sf.net when "opening" data files. It determines the mime type and searches in rox's Choices
directories for a program to handle that mimetype.
See the rox documentation for an extensive discussion of this mechanism.
EXPORT
The methods mime_exec
and mime_system
are exported, if you use the export tag :magic
you get the same methods but File::MimeInfo::Magic will be used for mimetype lookup.
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable CHOICESPATH
is used when searching for rox's config dirs. It defaults to $ENV{HOME}/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
METHODS
mime_system($file)
mime_system($file, $mimetype, @_)
-
Try to open
$file
with the appropriate program for files of it's mimetype. You can use$mimetype
to force the mimetype. Also if you already know the mimetype it saves a lot of time to just tell it.If either the mimetype couldn't be determined or no appropriate program could be found
undef
is returned. If the actual system fails an exception is raised.All remaining arguments are passed on to the handler.
mime_exec($file)
mime_exec($file, $mimetype, @_)
-
Like
mime_system()
but uses exec instead of system, so it never returns if successful. suggest_script_name($mimetype)
-
Returns the list
($dir, $file)
for the suggested place to write new script files (or symlinks) for mimetype$mimetype
. The suggested dir doesn't need to exist.
AUTHOR
Jaap Karssenberg <pardus@cpan.org> Maintained by Michiel Beijen <mb@x14.nl>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003, 2012 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.
SEE ALSO
File::MimeInfo, File::MimeInfo::Magic, http://rox.sourceforce.net