Effective Script Naming
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
The Task:
Find all scripts in a directory tree that contain a shebang (the first line of the script starts with a #! comment to tell it how to execute it), but the script is not set as executable, meaning the shebang is ineffective.
The Script:
#!/bin/sh
# $1 is the path to search
for file in $(find $1)
do
if [ -f $file ]
then
if [ ! -x $file ]
then
head -n 1 $file | egrep "^#!" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo $file
fi
fi
fi
done
Naming the script
There is only one name for a script whose entire purpose is to generate a list of weak ineffective shebangs: whung
The Task:
Find all scripts in a directory tree that contain a shebang (the first line of the script starts with a #! comment to tell it how to execute it), but the script is not set as executable, meaning the shebang is ineffective.
The Script:
#!/bin/sh
# $1 is the path to search
for file in $(find $1)
do
if [ -f $file ]
then
if [ ! -x $file ]
then
head -n 1 $file | egrep "^#!" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo $file
fi
fi
fi
done
Naming the script
There is only one name for a script whose entire purpose is to generate a list of weak ineffective shebangs: whung
