File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)       User Contributed Perl Documentation       File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)



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 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";

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 AT cpan.org> Maintained by Michiel Beijen <michiel.beijen AT gmail.com>

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.sourceforge.net>



perl v5.18.2                                2014-05-11                   File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)