[ale] Determining a scripts language?

[leam hall]

Yeah, I'm using basename to get just the script, but to strip the suffix
you have to know it. That's the issue.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you looked at basename and dirname?
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:52 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to do something simple, change the ending of a script to
>> ".txt". So if it's my_script.sh it becomes my_script.txt. Likewise for
>> my_script.rb, etc. The .txt version will have the documentation and
>> comments.
>>
>> So far all I've some up with is:
>>
>>   IS_SH=`echo ${SCRIPTNAME} | grep -c sh$`
>>
>> For each expected script ending. Which seems a really ugly thing to do.
>> Is there a better way in Bourne shell to do this?
>>
>> Leam
>>
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