[ale] Determining a scripts language?

[Pete Hardie]

Well, if the script names will not contain '.', a regex might serve (yeah,
I know "now you have TWO problems)



On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:06 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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