💡 Give a (last) chance by analyzing a binary in the `PATH` before to abort

[adriens]

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Actually when we ask to grype to analyze something that is not an image or a real file path it fails after having attempted all possible options :

...yet, sometimes the target file can be an executable in the PATH :

So a simple workaround is to do as follows :

🎯 Feature request

Before exiting in error, trying to target the file/command in the PATH could make the UX even better : what do you thing about it ?

[kzantow]

I don't know about adding this behavior or not, but if you have the which utility, you can just run grype $(which <binary-name>), e.g.:

grype $(which grype)

[adriens]

Yes @kzantow , that's what I did for now according to the screenshot I provided