[Clipart] Re: SVG support for getID3

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.org
Sun Feb 19 23:59:03 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:48:00PM -0500, Nathan Eady wrote:
> Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I also notice that mimetype is able to correctly determine the
> > SVG-ness of the file:
> > 
> > $ mimetype daggers.svg
> > daggers.svg: image/svg+xml
> 
> Is this a standard tool?  What is it included with?  Synaptic has
> never heard of it, and a Google search for mimetype turns up, of
> course, practically every site that mentions MIME content types
> in any context.  It's like trying to search for the NOW without
> knowing what the acronym stands for.

It's a perl script written by Japp G. Karssenberg in 2003.  Its manpage
mentions the File::MimeInfo module.

Bryce



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