Scripting

John A. Turner

October 2, 1998

I like the recent rise of scripting languages. I've written some Perl scripts and written some GUIs using Tcl/Tk. I'm currently interested in Python. It also has a binding to Tk, as well as an interesting numerical extensions effort.

Scripts I've written

• C Shell
  • sd.csh - an improvement over pushd / popd for moving around (I quit using this once I started using shells with completion)

• Awk
  • memory_f77.awk - generate Fortran 77 code for declaration, allocation, and deallocation of arrays from file containing description of necessary arrays

  • memory_f90.awk - generate Fortran 90 code for declaration, allocation, and deallocation of arrays from file containing description of necessary arrays

• Perl
  • f2html.pl - convert a set of Fortran source files into a set of web pages

    Here is something similar (but much more extensive) that was done for the FreeBSD kernel source.

  • bookmarks2tex.pl - convert a Netscape Navigator bookmarks file to L^ATEX (for further processing by L^ATEX2HTML)

  • favorites2tex.pl - convert a set of Microsoft Internet Explorer favorites files to L^ATEX (for further processing by L^ATEX2HTML)

• Tcl/Tk

• Python

Scripts written by others

• Korn Shell
  • wit.ksh - provide summary of system configuration and performance for IBM RS/6000 machines

• Awk
  • fpdiff.awk - compare floating-point numbers

• Perl
  • tcl2html.pl - convert Tcl/Tk source files into a set of web pages

  • texi2html.pl - convert a Texinfo document into a set of web pages