splitter magic for columns

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / files / remove_here_if_not_there.sh

diff --git a/scripts/files/remove_here_if_not_there.sh b/scripts/files/remove_here_if_not_there.sh
index 6ba6a4e3f0dd1f46d7862101a4636114becc4857..ba0d8dff1fff4d8e37edc929d5612911eb4c72b5 100644 (file)
--- 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as by using the command [ cp -R "$there"/* "$here" ] ) , but it is a lot harder to determine what stuff in "here" is out of date and should be removed.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as by using the command [ cp -R "$there"/* "$here" ] ) , but it is a lot harder to determine what stuff in "here" is out of date and should be removed.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