As everybody surely knows, the "file" command in bash prints info about the type of a file. (i.e file flower.jpg will show that this is a jpeg image)

I'm trying to achieve the same in a perl script. Thus I wrote something like this:

use strict;
use File::Type;

my $infile = "flower.jpg";
   my $ft = File::Type->new();
     my $type1 = $ft->checktype_filename($infile);
     my $type2 = $ft->mime_type($infile);

     print "$type1\n";
     print "$type2\n";
     print `file $infile`;

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and my proto-script returns 

image/jpeg
image/jpeg
flower.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01

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Thus we have a clear winner, the File::Type module, although not bad, is clearly less accurate that file. And that's the question: żDo you know any way/module/function integrated with perl to obtain the same amount of info about a file? or I need to use system here to call directly the file command?. The big nuisance here is that if you search for file + perl in google you obtain millions of unrelated results

In reply to file command replacement (showing the type of a file with perl) by pvaldes

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