--meta_file flag not generating meta file

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Hi, I was writing a bash script that uses cewl as part of a bigger suite of tools. I noticed that when passing the --meta_file flag, which I process to forward it to cewl, it doesn't generate the meta file.

I tried:

• cewl -d 1 -m 5 -a -w ~/Desktop/cewlTest/domain.txt --meta_file ~/Desktop/cewlTest/meta_domain.txt --debug [URL]
• cewl -d 1 -m 5 -a --meta_file ~/Desktop/cewlTest/meta_domain.txt -w ~/Desktop/cewlTest/domain.txt --debug [URL]
• cewl -d 1 -m 5 -a --meta_file ~/Desktop/cewlTest/meta_domain.txt --debug [URL]

but none of them generate the file in the desired location (also tested with absolute paths).

Also tested with:

• cewl -d 1 -m 5 -e --email_file ~/Desktop/cewlTest/email_domain.txt --debug [URL]

since this flag seems to work in the same way, and it behaves correctly in both the command and inside the .sh script. I can't really understand what's the problem here.

Screen attached.

EDIT: contents of /etc/os-release for more information

PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="2024.2"
VERSION="2024.2"
VERSION_CODENAME=kali-rolling
ID=kali
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"