[ale] Determining a scripts language?

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

Have you looked at basename and dirname?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:52 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> 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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