[ale] Determining a scripts language?

[Pete Hardie]

One question on that - I assume it's bash only and not original(tm) Bourne
shell?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> No echos, other commands or subshells here, use bash built-in regex:
>
> (Make a subdirectory to accept the destination files to make things
> cleaner or put the sources in a subdir and move the destinations up a
> level)
>
> #!/bin/bash
> subdir=subdirname
> for f in * (or *.* or whatever pattern you want)
> do
>         cp $f ${subdir}/${f%.*}.txt
> done
>
>
>
>
> %.* trims everything from f after the last dot (including the dot)
> returning the prefix
> %%.* is greedier and will trim everything after the first dot
>
>
> On 2016-04-06 15:39, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > perhaps something lile this:
> >
> > for file in *.*
> > do
> >      parts = $(echo $file| tr "." " ")
> >      bname = `basename $parts[0] $parts[1]`
> >      cp $file ${bname}.txt #or whatever processing you are doing here
> with $file
> > the whole name and $base the name sans suffix
> > done
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com
> > <mailto:pete.hardie at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     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
> >     <mailto: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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