examples/scripts.noah/README

   1 This collection of scripts was originally written for older versions
   2 of bash by Noah Friedman (friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu).  The conversion
   3 to bash v2 syntax was done by Chet Ramey.
   4
   5 These scripts are as-is; there is no copyright associated with
   6 any of them.  They exist simply as examples of bash scripting.
   7
   8 Here's a description of what's in this directory:
   9
  10 aref.bash               pseudo-arrays and substring indexing examples
  11 bash.sub.bash           library functions used by require.bash
  12 bash_version.bash       a function to slice up $BASH_VERSION
  13 meta.bash               enable and disable eight-bit readline input
  14 mktmp.bash              make a temporary file with a unique name
  15 number.bash             a fun hack to translate numerals into english
  16 prompt.bash             a way to set PS1 to some predefined strings
  17 remap_keys.bash         a front end to `bind' to redo readline bindings
  18 require.bash            lisp-like require/provide library functions for bash
  19 send_mail.bash          replacement smtp client written in bash
  20 shcat.bash              bash replacement for `cat'
  21 source.bash             replacement for source that uses current directory
  22 string.bash             the string(3) functions at the shell level
  23 stty.bash               front-end to stty that changes readline bindings too
  24 y_or_n_p.bash           prompt for a yes/no/quit answer