File::MimeInfo::Rox - Open files by mimetype "Rox style"
use File::MimeInfo::Magic; use File::MimeInfo::Rox qw/:magic/; # open some file with the apropriate 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";
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.
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.
The environment variable CHOICESPATH
is used when searching
for rox's config dirs. It defaults to
$ENV{HOME}/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
mime_system($file)
mime_system($file, $mimetype, @_)
Try to open $file
with the appropriate program for files of
it's mimetype. You can use $mimetype
to force the mimetype.
Also if you allready know the mimetype it saves a lot of time
to just tell it.
If either the mimetype couldn't be determinated or
no appropriate program could be found undef
is returned.
If the actual system failes an exception is raised.
All remaining arguments are passed on to the handler.
mime_exec($file)
mime_exec($file, $mimetype, @_)
mime_system()
but uses exec instead of system,
so it never returns if successful.
suggest_script_name($mimetype)
($dir, $file)
for the suggested place
to write new script files (or symlinks) for mimetype $mimetype
.
The suggested dir doesn't need to exist.
Please mail the author when you encounter any bugs.
Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus [Larus] <pardus@cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2003,2008 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.
File::MimeInfo, File::MimeInfo::Magic, http://rox.sourceforce.net