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Originally Posted by cscat
first non-knc1 poster here! 
Can you please explain what this is all about, what is the purpose and use of it (like a very hands-on intro), all I perceive from it that it seems interesting but in all honesty I have close-to-0 clue what it is at all!!! Thanks dude. |
Oh, I missed the chance for a brag -
Ever want to do "Declarative Programming"?
Ever want to do it in Bash?
Look at the script - it has a "Declarative Progamming" engine in it and this utitlity uses that to "solve" the problem of opening any combination of compressed files and archives.
Like that baby, it "learns as it goes" (and also remembers to record how to clean up after itself).
Don't be side-tracked by all the supporting functions - the entire program is three (3!) lines - just ignore the first 1200 lines or so of supporting functions, look at the bottom of the file.
To which I added a couple of lines to give a nice dump of all the problems encountered.
That is how it got into the ABS Guide back in 2003 (possibly dropped in newer versions).
It was a "Declarative Programming" extension to my chapter on using Bash arrays.