File::MMagic 1.27

File::MMagic is a Perl module to guess file type.

SYNOPSIS

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);