Re: Determine mime type of a file

[Marco <netuse@...>]

On 2011-05-02 Adrian Perez <aperez@igalia.com> wrote:

> > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:55:23AM +0200, Marco wrote:
> >
> > > How  can I determine the  mime type of a  file (like
> > the unix > command “file  -i <some_file>”)? > Well, on
> > my Ubuntu system it's this easy:
> >
> > > function   mime_type(a)  return   io.popen('file  -i
> > > '..a):read() end
> >
> > Unfortunately io.popen "is system dependent and is not
> > available on all platforms."
>
> Another  thing that  could be  done is  binding libmagic
> [1], which is what the “file” command uses internally.

Thanks for the pointer. Looks promising.

Marco