splitter magic for columns

diff --git a/scripts/core/inventory.sh b/scripts/core/inventory.sh
index e2290d5afccd8102d67c6530bcf1bfd7b677b2b5..eeb77039ad4cacc95c434ceeec771214b76370d3 100644 (file)
--- 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 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as by using the command [ cp -R "$there"/* "$here" ] ) , but it is a lot harder to determine what stuff in "here" is out of date and should be removed.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 

diff --git a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
index 8c7e996162769570b7c3b7644ae15063dd84ee70..7656dc1003c453617fae7b9f3ae0b326da8d9e1a 100644 (file)
--- 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