made inventory check whether splitter is available or not and just use cat if not...

diff --git a/scripts/core/inventory.sh b/scripts/core/inventory.sh
index f2daf63a06e9dbec0f38f1909abf7598d57916a7..b5cbacbd15dded495382e7f54a878f12414aa361 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/core/inventory.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/inventory.sh
@@ -28,8 +28,15 @@ else
   up="$(uptime | awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $4 " plus " $1 " hours" }')"
 fi
 
+# decide whether they've got splitter available or not.
+if [ -f "$BINDIR/splitter" -o -f "$BINDIR/splitter.exe" ]; then
+  splitter="$BINDIR/splitter"
+else
+  # not available, so just emit as huge overly long string.
+  splitter="cat"
+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 
+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