Auto detect type of extension-less files

[hannesd]

I'd like to adhere to https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml which expects bash files to not have any extension. Currently I am not aware of a configuration option that would allow the license-maven-plugin to correctly deal with this situation.

My suggestion would be to add a boolean option "autoDetect" which, if set to true, will try to find some magic line within the first min(n lines, m bytes) of an extension-less file (unless the whole filename matches an extension or the file is ignored). By "magic line" I mean stuff like "#!/bin/bash".

There would have to be another option like "mapping" (e.g. autoDetectMapping) which allows the user to specify regular expressions that match the magic line, e.g.: <autoDetectMappings><autoDetectMapping><search>#!/bin/bash</search><style>SCRIPT_STYLE</style></autoDetectMapping></autoDetectMappings>

Would there be interest in such a feature? If so, I'd like to give it a try.

[ljacomet]

I second this, adding a different twist to it. In Java projects, you end up having ServiceLoader files under META-INF/services/com.service.class.Name and it would be great to have some support for handling these as well.

[ilooner]

+1 would be very useful. Need it for my script files.

[mathieucarbou]

in relation to #204

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