NAME

File::LibMagic - Perlwrapper for libmagic

SYNOPSIS

use File::LibMagic qw/magic_buffer magic_file/;

print magic_buffer("Hello World\n"),"\n";
# returns "ASCII text"

print magic_file("/bin/ls"),"\n";
# returns "ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV)"
# on my system

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.

AUTHOR

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

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2004 by Andreas Fitzner

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