Hello trid users,
In the past i used the trid utilities on a Windows system. Some weeks i
installed a Linux Mint 21.1. So now i tried to run the trid utilities on this
system. Now i get an error when running a command like:
tridscan.py fr-40-only.cwl fr-60-only.cwl /tmp/spell-mint/fr-80-only.cwl
Then i get an error message like:
usage: tridscan.py [-h] [-v] [-r] [-fs] [-ns] [-d filename] filenames [filenames ...]
tridscan.py: error: unrecognized arguments: /tmp/fr-80-only.cwl
When running the same command without using absolute path in files option by
command like:
tridscan.py fr-40-only.cwl fr-60-only.cwl fr-80-only.cwl
Then all work is OK and i get a message like:
TrIDScan/Py v2.02 - (C) 2015-2016 By M.Pontello
File(s) to scan found: 3
Scanning for patterns...
Checking file 1/3 './fr-80-only.cwl'
Checking file 2/3 './fr-40-only.cwl'
Pattern(s) found: 95
Checking file 3/3 './fr-60-only.cwl'
Pattern(s) found: 6
Last pattern end at offset: 1722
Scanning for strings...
Analyzing file 1/3 './fr-80-only.cwl'
Raw strings: 11K
String(s) found: 1763
Analyzing file 2/3 './fr-40-only.cwl'
Parsing...
Raw strings: 217K
Checking strings...
Filtering strings...
String(s) found: 1366
Analyzing file 3/3 './fr-60-only.cwl'
Parsing...
Raw strings: 408K
Checking strings...
Filtering strings...
String(s) found: 1275
New TrID's definition written as 'newtype.trid.xml'.
So apparently there is a bug in tridscan python script (version 2.02), when
handling the slash character. In the past on my Windows system such an error
did not occur because there the path separating character is a backslash on
such a system.
I also checked the python version by running a command like:
python2 --version
On Linux Mint and my window systems i get "Python 2.7.18". Then i also
test it on an old SUSE 13.2. There the same error occur for Python
version 2.7.8.
At the moment as a work around i copy my inspected samples in one directory
and in that directory i run tridscan there without leading paths.
But this is annoying when i want to check hundreds of examples laying
around on the disc in many different directories.
According to documentation the program should also work when using path but it
definitively does not in such a case.
I hope this error can be fixed in the future. Regards
Jörg Jenderek
