On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:45:46 -0400
Peter Schaffter <pe...@schaffter.ca> wrote:
> > Also, wouldn't this script be useful to include in the groff
> > distribution?
>
> I'm inclined to think so, however it contains non-portable bashisms
> and so might not be appropriate. The script was a quick and dirty
> solution to font installation.
That's the best and biggest Q&D shell script I've ever seen.
> Something similar but more robust and not reliant on a particular
> shell interpreter would be better.
I just took a look, Peter, because I have some experience writing
Bourne shell scripts. I don't see anything bash-specific, just looking
over it. You might just change #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh; I think it
will run pretty well, maybe perfectly.
If I were publishing it, I'd remove the VT100 escape codes, and format
my if statements without semicolons:
if [ foo ]
then
bar
fi
because that's what Steven Bourne intended. ;-)
If you decide to add it to the distibution, I'll write the man page.
--jkl
