Ron Johnson wrote:
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> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I need to detect the actual programming language of a script.
>>
>> A way of detecting it is to examine the first line searching for the
>> "sha-bang" (#!), e.g.,
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> or
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> However, there are cases where this is not enough, since the script,
>> although it has #!/bin/sh is actually written (and interpreted) in
>> another language, e.g., Tcl.
>>
>> So my question is, is there another way of detecting the actual
>> language? I mean, another convention?
>
> Is this internal to the script, or external (looking in)?
>
I need to detect the language of the script in order to highlight it
accordingly (GNU source-highlight http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite)
for instance I have some tcl scripts that start as follows:
#!/bin/sh
# Tcl ignores the next line -*- tcl -*- \
exec wish "$0" -- "$@"
and I want them to be colorized as a Tcl script instead of a shell script
> I don't think that you can accurately do what you want, because a
> script can call multiple interpreters.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> echo 'A shellism'
> python <<EOF1
> print 'This is a python scriptlet'
> print 'It can do many things'
> EOF1
> echo 'another shellism'
> perl <<EOF2
> {
> print "This is a Perl scriptlet\n";
> print "It also can do many things\n";
> }
> EOF2
> echo 'a third shellism'
>
well that's not a big problem for what I'd like to do :-)
thanks in advance
Lorenzo
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