On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:06:40AM -0700, Suraj Kurapati wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Suraj Kurapati <sun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alternatively, in simple shell scripts (for which writing a manpage > would be overkill), I simply print the script file's comment header > using sed(1): > > #!/bin/sh > # your program description & usage documentation here > # nicely formatted and beautified to fit 80 columns > # NOTE: the blank line below is the end of the file comment header > > # check command-line usage > if test "$#" -lt 3; then > sed -n '2,/^$/s/^# \?//p' "$0" # show this file's comment header > exit 1 > fi
That is beautiful. -Noah
