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MIMEOPEN(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      MIMEOPEN(1p)

NAME

       mimeopen - Open files by mimetype

SYNOPSIS

       mimeopen [options] [-] files

DESCRIPTION

       This script tries to determine the mimetype of a file and open it with the default desktop application. If no default application is
       configured the user is prompted with an "open with" menu in the terminal.

       To use this script you need the freedestop mime-info database and the freedesktop desktop-file-utils package. See
       File::MimeInfo::Applications(3) for more details.

OPTIONS

       -a, --ask
	   Do not execute the default application but ask which application to run.  This does not change the default application.

       -d, --ask-default
	   Let the user choose a new default program for given files.

       -n, --no-ask
	   Don't ask the user which program to use. Choose the default program or the first program known to handle the file mimetype. This does
	   not set the default application.

       -M, --magic-only
	   Do not check for extensions, globs or inode type, only look at the content of the file. This is particularly useful if for some reason
	   you don't trust the name or the extension a file has.

       --database=mimedir:mimedir:...
	   Force the program to look in these directories for the shared mime-info database. The directories specified by the basedir
	   specification are ignored.

       -D, --debug
	   Print debug information about how the mimetype was determined.

       -h, --help
       -u, --usage
	   Print a help message and exits.

       -v, --version
	   Print the version of the program and exit.

DEPRECATED OPTIONS

       -L, --dereference
	   Follow symbolic links.  Deprecated because this is the logical default for this command.  Ignored silently.

BUGS

       No known bugs, please mail the author if you find one.

       See File::MimeInfo::Applications(3) and File::DesktopEntry(3) for some limitations.

AUTHOR

       Jaap Karssenberg <pardus@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2002, 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.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       mimetype(1), update-mime-database(1), update-desktop-database(1), File::MimeInfo(3), File::MimeInfo::Applications(3)

perl v5.14.2							    2012-01-05							      MIMEOPEN(1p)

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 $somefile
";
	 mime_system($somefile, $mt)
	     || die "No program to open $somefile available
";

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
	   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, @_)"
	   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.

BUGS

       Please mail the author when you encounter any bugs.

AUTHOR

       Jaap Karssenberg <pardus@cpan.org>

       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.sourceforce.net>

perl v5.14.2							    2012-01-05						  File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)