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File::MimeInfo::Rox - Open files by mimetype "Rox style"
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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.
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.
Environment
The environment variable "CHOICESPATH" is used when searching for rox's config dirs. It defaults to
"$ENV{HOME}/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices"
Export
The methods "mime_exec" and "mime_system" are exported, if you use the export tag ":magic" you get the
same methods but File::MimeInfo::Magic will be used for mimetype lookup.
Methods
mime_system($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, $mimetype, @_)"
Like mime_system() but uses exec instead of system, so it neverreturns if successful.
suggest_script_name($mimetype)
Returns the list "($dir, $file)" for the suggested place to write new script files (or symlinks) for
mimetype $mimetype. The suggested dir doesn't need to exist.
Name
File::MimeInfo::Rox - Open files by mimetype "Rox style"
See Also
File::MimeInfo, File::MimeInfo::Magic, <http://rox.sourceforce.net>
perl v5.38.2 2024-04-27 File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)
Synopsis
use File::MimeInfo::Magic;
use File::MimeInfo::Rox qw/:magic/;
# open some file with the appropriate program
mime_system($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";
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