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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Retrieving File's Mime-type Post 302273093 by jim mcnamara on Friday 2nd of January 2009 03:57:20 PM
Old 01-02-2009
If you have the .pm file for mime type checking (for example like Lite.pm for mime::lite)
you do not necessarily have to "install" the module. Just put it in your directory on the machine you are using, say /home/Rhije/Lite.pm

and add this to the shebang in the top of your own perl code
Code:
#!/bin/perl -I/home/Rhije/Lite.pm

This may not always work, but mime content-type checking is reasonably complex, so it is definitely worth a try. Rather than rolling your own. You can pack the two files in a tarball, extract them and run the perl. I know it violates your "one file" request.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

update-mime-database

update-mime-database(1) 					   User Commands					   update-mime-database(1)

NAME

       update-mime-database - build the shared MIME_Info database cache

SYNOPSIS

       update-mime-database -h | -v | mime-dir

DESCRIPTION

       update-mime-database  updates  the  shared mime-info cache according to the system described in the Shared MIME-Info Database specification
       from the X Desktop Group.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -h	       Display a command summary.

       -v	       Display version information

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       MIME-dir        The directory for which update-mime-database should rebuild the cache. This option is mandatory if no other option is  pro-
		       vided.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Update Shared mime-info Cache for /usr/share

       example% update-mime-database /usr/share

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/update-mime-datExecutable to build the shared MIME_Info database cache

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-vfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gnome-vfs-mime-magic(4), gnome-vfs.applications(4), gnome-vfs.keys(4), gnome-vfs.mime(4)

       Shared mime info at http://www.freedesktop.org.

NOTES

       Original man page written by Filip Von Raemdonck (mechanix@debian.org).

       Updated by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    6 Sep 2004						   update-mime-database(1)
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