On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 18:02 +0200, Cecil C. wrote: > I use Gimp under Ubuntu 10.04. My question is fairly simple. I have been > using Gimp since 2.0, and have copied scripts over from release to release. > Usually, some of the copied scripts are broken when a new release is > available, such as from 2.4 to 2.6. To date, I have not made the effort to > remove the broken scripts. > > When a script is broken, I find out by running the script and getting an error > message, such as "Error: set!: unbound variable: screen-layer". I know how I > invoked the script from the menu, so I can edit all the scripts in my > directory to see where they put the script in the menu structure and the name > they used. Often, I can narrow the number of scripts I have to edit to find > the correct one by using the script name as a starting point. However, there > are a significant number of scripts that have a different file name than that > used in the menu. Needless to say, this is a tedious and slow process. > > Is there an easier way to identify a broken script file other than the process > I have outlined above?
Probably the easiest way to find a script that contains a certain string (as found in the error-message) is to use the grep utility. Try 'man grep'. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
