NINKA(1)

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💅 NINKA(1) — like, the manual page, bestie 💅

okay so picture this: it's giving source file license identification tool. That's ninka. Yes, that's the whole vibe. She reads your code and tells you which licenses are hiding in there. Iconic behaviour, honestly. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ninka — the source file license identification tool. She sniffs out licenses. That's her whole thing. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSYS 🦋

ninka [options] filename

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ninka scans a source file and returns the licenses it found. That's it. That's the tea. 🔍✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -i — create intermediary files (for debugging). lowkey the "show your work" flag 🫶
  • -v — verbose. she will talk, and honestly? we love that for her 🗣️💬

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

ninka foo.c

Determine the licenses in file foo.c. simple. clean. slay. 💅

ninka -i foo.c

Determine the licenses in file foo.c and create intermediary files (for debugging). extra credit behaviour fr fr 📝✨

find * | xargs -n1 -I@ ninka '@'

Determine the licenses of files in a directory. yes bestie, we're doing the whole directory. main character energy 🌈

🌼 AUTHOR 🌼

ninka was written by Daniel M. German <dmg@uvic.ca> and Yuki Manabe <y-manabe@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp>. absolute legends, no cap 👑👑

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Daniel M. German, Yuki Manabe and Katsuro Inoue. A sentence-matching method for automatic license identification of source code files. In 25nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010).

You can download it from http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/papers/dmg2010ninka.pdf. go read it, it's giving academic excellence 📚💜

Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Yuki Manabe and Daniel M. German, 2015 René Scheibe

okay legal moment, but make it cute — read it though, this part actually matters 🫶

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

and that's the whole page bestie ✨ this copy's stamped perl v5.42.3, dated 1980-01-01 — yeah, the date is a whole vibe of its own 💀 but that's what it says, so that's what we're saying. bye pookie, go identify some licenses 💖🦋🎀

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