From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 07:37:34 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: splitter magic for columns
X-Git-Tag: 2.140.98^2~4^2~16
X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7aa39ad678cbcbdc638e03a2b0c50818eb8850f6;p=feisty_meow.git

splitter magic for columns
---

diff --git a/scripts/core/inventory.sh b/scripts/core/inventory.sh
index e2290d5a..eeb77039 100644
--- a/scripts/core/inventory.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/inventory.sh
@@ -46,17 +46,11 @@ else
 fi
 echo
 echo "it is $(date +"%A at %H:%M hours on day %e of the %B moon in the gregorian year %Y" | tr A-Z a-z) and our intrepid adventurer $USER is exploring a computer named $(hostname) that is running in a thoughtspace called $osname $osver (code-name $codename), and $USER has deduced that the machine's OS platform is $(uname -m) and its current incarnation has been ${up}." | $splitter 
-#hmmm: splitter not accepting these args properly right now:
-#--mincol 2 --maxcol 40
 echo
-#echo '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'
-#echo
 echo "the following things appear to be lying around here..."
 echo
 ls -hFC $color_add
 echo
-#echo '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'
-#echo
 echo "there appear to be these entities on this host..."
 echo
 who -suT
diff --git a/scripts/files/remove_here_if_not_there.sh b/scripts/files/remove_here_if_not_there.sh
index 6ba6a4e3..ba0d8dff 100644
--- a/scripts/files/remove_here_if_not_there.sh
+++ b/scripts/files/remove_here_if_not_there.sh
@@ -3,8 +3,13 @@
 function print_instructions()
 {
   echo -e "\n$(basename $0 .sh):\n"
+
+#hmmm: extract to a terminal size function.
+# calculate the number of columsn in the terminal.
+cols=$(stty size | awk '{print $2}')
+
   echo -e 'this script takes two parameters, a "here" folder and a "there" folder, almost as if it were a copy command.  but instead, this removes any file from under the "here" location if it cannot be found in the "there" location.  so the "there" location is considered a more definitive template of what should be in "here", such that we strip out what "there" does not have.\n\n
-the most" useful way to use this script is for a "here" hierarchy that is a copy of an older version of another "there" hierarchy.  the "there" hierarchy may have changed a lot, including new files, changed files, and deleted files.  it is a simple operation to copy everything from "there" into "here" (such as by using the command [ cp -R "$there"/* "$here" ] ) , but it is a lot harder to determine what stuff in "here" is out of date and should be removed.  that is where this script comes in; it can be run to flush out any older things in "here", rather than requiring the user to manually find all those files.  ' | splitter
+the most" useful way to use this script is for a "here" hierarchy that is a copy of an older version of another "there" hierarchy.  the "there" hierarchy may have changed a lot, including new files, changed files, and deleted files.  it is a simple operation to copy everything from "there" into "here" (such as by using the command [ cp -R "$there"/* "$here" ] ) , but it is a lot harder to determine what stuff in "here" is out of date and should be removed.  that is where this script comes in; it can be run to flush out any older things in "here", rather than requiring the user to manually find all those files.  ' | splitter --maxcol $(($cols - 1))
   echo
   echo "Example Usage:"
   echo 
diff --git a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
index 8c7e9961..7656dc10 100644
--- a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
+++ b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ export MAX_DEPTH=5
 # use our splitter tool for lengthy output if it's available.
 if [ ! -z "$(which splitter)" ]; then
   TO_SPLITTER="$(which splitter)"
+
+#hmmm: another reusable chunk here, getting terminal size.
+  # calculate the number of columsn in the terminal.
+  cols=$(stty size | awk '{print $2}')
+  TO_SPLITTER+=" --maxcol $(($cols - 1))"
 else
   TO_SPLITTER=cat
 fi