Re: where do scripts go?

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>]

William Ballard wrote:

> My program will be called "tufiler", and will have the supporting
> scripts demo.pl and tufiler.pl.  Demo.pl will just throw up a fake
> file list and not actually move or rename any files, so people can get
> the idea of what the program does.  tufiler.pl will be *my* idea of
> how to file scanned papers, and there's a high liklihood people will
> want to modify the logic.  I figured people would just make a copy and
> specify the alternate perl script on the command line.

In that case, it's common to place the original script in
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/examples, with instructions for the user to make
a customized copy before using it.