[ale] Determining a scripts language?

[Pete Hardie]

Is the issue that you don't want a separate command for each suffix, or
that you will not know all the suffixes ahead of time?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Scott M. Jones <eff at dragoncon.org> wrote:

> Great answers in Stack Overflow, including a bash-only solution.
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15060384/one-liner-in-bash-using-perl-or-awk-to-change-extension-of-multiple-files
>
> On 4/6/16 5:52 PM, 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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