rust-magic
Usage
Create a new Cargo project (or edit your existing one):
$ cargo new --bin magic-usage && cd magic-usage/
$ $EDITOR Cargo.toml
Add a dependency to your Cargo.toml
(see Cargo doc):
[dependencies]
magic = "0.13"
Then use the magic
crate according to its documentation.
MSRV
The Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV) is Rust 1.48 or higher.
This version might be changed in the future, but it will be done with a crate version bump.
Requirements
By default compiling rust-magic
will search your system library paths for a version of libmagic.so
. If you're cross-compiling, or need more control over which library is selected, see how to build rust-magic-sys
.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE
).
The magic-sys
crate being used is licensed under the MIT license as well (see LICENSE-MIT
).
The file
/libmagic
project is licensed under a modified BSD license (see COPYING
).
This crate contains partial test-data from its magic databases (rust-magic/data/tests/db-images-png
is from file/magic/Magdir/images
, rust-magic/data/tests/db-python
is from file/magic/Magdir/python
).