On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, David Wright wrote: > The implementation isn't necessarily irrelevant when you have to > maintain the scripts yourself. Just at the level of pressing F3 in mc, > or running less, it saves time knowing what you expect to appear on > the screen.
A good $EDITOR takes care of that for you. http://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=bin.git;a=tree is my own ~/bin; never had any trouble figuring out what language things were... and if I needed something to do it programmatically, file does a pretty good job itself. > I have links and scripts such as > radio2wav → record2wav.py stoprecording → stoprecording.sh > vinyl2wav → record2wav.py > which are used both directly and by cron, but also scripts like > split-tracks.py which would only ever be used from the command line. > All these reside together in my ~/bin/ which is on-PATH. You've now got tab completion going to two different things, and twice as many entries in ~/bin/ as you might expect. But hey; if it works for you, great. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Q: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? A: Nothing. -- Bokonon _The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon_ (Vonnegut _Cats Cradle_)
