magikku¶ ↑

Ruby bindings for libmagic(3)

There are other variations of this binding. This one was written to ensure all features of the library were bound correctly (including compiling and checking magic databases) as well as to ensure compatability on different ruby environments.

Magikku includes FFI bindings as well as native ruby bindings.

Here’s a basic example identifying file contents.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'magikku'

puts "This file is: " << Magikku.file(__FILE__)
puts "Mime Type:    " << Magikku.file(__FILE__, :flags => Magikku::Flags::MIME)

… or string contents…

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'magikku'

dat = STDIN.read
puts "Data is:   " << Magikku.string(dat)
puts "Mime Type: " << Magikku.string(dat, :flags => Magikku::Flags::MIME)

Sometimes it’s better to initialize a single object to reuse for lots of files:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'magikku'

def ident(magik, f) 
  magik.flags = Magikku::Flags::NONE
  print "#{f} (#{magik.file(f)}) "
  magik.flags = Magikku::Flags::MIME
  puts magik.file(f)

  if File.directory?(f)
    Dir[File.join(f, "*")].each {|f2| ident(magik, f2) }
  end
end

magik = Magikku.new
Dir["*"].each do |f|
  ident(magik,f)
end
magik.close

* libmagic - The dynamic library is generally installed when buliding from 
  source, but your system may have a package available. 
  http://www.darwinsys.com/file/

Optional:

* ruby-ffi - If you do not wish to compile the C bindings, or if you want to
  develop magikku, you will need to have ruby-FFI available. But, this is not
  needed for basic use under MRI (Matz Ruby Interpreter). http://github.com/ffi/ffi

As a gem:

(sudo)? gem install magikku

From github:

# !first ensure you have libmagic installed.

git clone http://github.com/emonti/magikku.git
cd magikku
rake compile
rake spec # to make sure everything works

Copyright © 2011 Eric Monti. See LICENSE for details.