Magic.Operations

Maintainer : [e-mail] Stability : provisional Portability: portable

Initialization and shutdown for magic programs

Written by John Goerzen, [e-mail]

Guessing the type

magicFile :: Magic -> FilePath -> IO String

Calls the Magic system on the specified file.

magicStdin :: Magic -> IO String

Calls the Magic system on stdin.

magicString :: Magic -> String -> IO String

Calls the Magic system to process the given String. Please note: it is not evaluated lazily.

magicCString :: Magic -> CStringLen -> IO String

Lower-level function used to call the Magic system to process a C string.

Other operations

magicSetFlags :: Magic -> [MagicFlag] -> IO ()

Change the flags on an already-created object.

magicCompile

Arguments

:: Magic

Object to use

-> Maybe String

Colon separated list of databases, or Nothing for default

-> IO ()

Compile the colon-separated list of database file(s). The compiled files created have .mgc added to the names of the argument.