Metastruct/lua-magic

libmagic binding for lua

lua-magic

libmagic binding for lua.
see man libmagic for more details.

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Dependencies

• libmagic: https://github.com/file/file

Installation

luarocks install --from=http://mah0x211.github.io/rocks/ magic

example

local magic = require('magic');
local mgc = magic.open( magic.MIME_TYPE, magic.NO_CHECK_COMPRESS );
local filepath = '/path/to/file';
local rc = mgc:load();

if rc ~= 0 then
    print( rc, mgc:error() );
else
    print( mgc:file( filepath ) );
end

constants

magic.NONE
magic.DEBUG
magic.SYMLINK
magic.COMPRESS
magic.DEVICES
magic.MIME_TYPE
magic.CONTINUE
magic.CHECK
magic.PRESERVE_ATIME
magic.RAW
magic.ERROR
magic.MIME_ENCODING
magic.MIME
magic.APPLE
magic.NO_CHECK_COMPRESS
magic.NO_CHECK_TAR
magic.NO_CHECK_SOFT
magic.NO_CHECK_APPTYPE
magic.NO_CHECK_ELF
magic.NO_CHECK_TEXT
magic.NO_CHECK_CDF
magic.NO_CHECK_TOKENS
magic.NO_CHECK_ENCODING
-- backwards copatibility(rename)
magic.NO_CHECK_ASCII
-- backwards copatibility(do nothing)
magic.NO_CHECK_FORTRAN
magic.NO_CHECK_TROFF

class methods

magic.getpath();
magic.open( ...:constants );

instance methods

mgc:file( path:string );
mgc:descriptor( fd:integer );
mgc:error();
mgc:setflags( [...:constants] );
mgc:load( path:string );
mgc:compile( path:string );
mgc:check( path:string );
mgc:list();
mgc:errno();