= File::MMagic =

File::MMagic is a Perl module to guess file types from its contents
like file(1) command.

The code is based on file.kulp, a part of 
[http://ppt.perl.org/ The Unix Reconstruction Project].
And it contains built-in magic entries, almost of them come from
Apache mod_mime_magic module, so the software distributes
under The Apache License.

 = Latest Version =

 * Version 1.27 was released (2006/05/23)

 = links =

 * [wiki:File-MMagic Japanese page]
 * [http://search.cpan.org/~knok/ CPAN]
 * Source code
   * [http://www.namazu.org/trac-namazu/trac.cgi/browser/MMagic/ Trac source code browser]
   * [http://cvs.namazu.org/MMagic/?root=Subversion&sortdir=down ViewCVS]

 = Similar software feature matrix =


||Software||Based lib||Builtin Magic||check by file||by contents||by filename||special file||
||File::MMagic||pure perl||o||o||o||o||x||
||File::MimeInfo::Magic||pure perl||x||o||o||x||o||
||File::Type||pure perl||o||o||o||o||x||
||File::MMagic::XS||file(1)||o||o||o||o||o||
||File::LibMagic||libmagic||x||o||o||x||o||