Task

• Find a way to detect licenses at the the beginning of files.
• Return a description like "Rejected: license."

Background

Sometimes, people put the license of the program at the top of the script instead of the description. This is a case that we should be able to detect. Right now it's done by looking for a couple of key words. But this won't scale.

My current thinking is to

• Build up an array of strings, which are the first line of licenses we've come across.
  • The first pass at solving this could be just two or more licenes (ie just enough to prove that the solution isn't a single hard coded string.)
  • This list will expand pretty quickly.
  • The list should be ordered in order of how frequently the licenses occur. Ie most common at the top. - Eg I'm guessing this will be a GPL of some form.
• Test that the returned comment does not contain each license.
• If it does, return a string like "Rejected: License." Ie it's not a comment.

Task

• See if there is a better way to do the columns.

Background

When I introduced the colour codes, column no longer behaved in expected ways. So I ended up rolling my own, that is very slow (It is the bottleneck). It would be great to do this better. Preferably using tools that are part of a standard install.

Task

• Output statistics at the bottom of the output about the material that has been discovered.

Background

I'd like to output a summary of what has been found. Eg

$ lsd /bin/z*
/bin/zcat                     ASCII/sh        l=2, c=#        Uncompress files to standard output.
/bin/zcmp                     ASCII/sh        l=2, c=#        Compare the uncompressed contents of compressed fi
/bin/zdiff                    ASCII/sh        l=2, c=#        sh is buggy on RS/6000 AIX 3.2. Replace above line
/bin/zegrep                   ASCII/sh        l=1, c=#                                     
/bin/zfgrep                   ASCII/sh        l=1, c=#                                     
/bin/zforce                   ASCII/sh        l=2, c=#        zforce: force a gz extension on all gzip files so 
/bin/zgrep                    ASCII/sh        l=3, c=#        zgrep -- a wrapper around a grep program that deco
/bin/zless                    ASCII/sh        l=5, c=#       This program is free software; you can redistribut
/bin/zmore                    ASCII/sh        l=6, c=#        This program is free software; you can redistribut
/bin/znew                     ASCII/sh        l=6, c=#        This program is free software; you can redistribut

ASCII/sh: 10
l=2, c=#: 4    l=1, c=#:2    l=3, c=#: 1    l=5, c=#: 1    l=6, c=#: 2

Task

• Run shell check over the code.
• Address issues.

Background

This is only just exiting the proof-of-concept phase. Let's improve the code :)

Task

• Automatically disable ANSI colour codes when in a pipe.

Background

Currently ANSI colour codes are always used. If someone wants to send the output to a file, this will cause unexpected results.