[ale] Determining a scripts language?

DJ-Pfulio DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Wed Apr 6 18:10:54 EDT 2016


Or use the 'rename' tool?  Uses regex, so

$ rename 's/.rb$/.txt/g' *.rb


On 04/06/16 17:52, leam hall 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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