NAME

fileutil::magic::file -
Procedures implementing file-type recognition

SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl 8.4
package require fileutil::magic::file  ? 1.0 ? 
::fileutil::magic::file filename

DESCRIPTION

This package provides a command for the recognition of file types in pure Tcl.

The core part of the recognizer was generated from a "magic(5)" file containing the checks to perform to recognize files, and associated file-types.

Beware! This recognizer is large, about 276 Kilobyte of generated Tcl code.

::fileutil::magic::file filename

This command is similar to the command fileutil::fileType.
The output of the command for the specified file is a string describing the type of the file.
This list will be empty if the type of the file is not recognized.

REFERENCES

1. ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ This site contains the current sources for the file command, including the magic definitions used by it. The latter were used by us to generate this recognizer.

SEE ALSO

fileutil, file(1), magic(5)

KEYWORDS

type, file utilities, file type, file recognition