[PD-dev] renaming core help files to the standard name
Miller Puckette
mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Sat May 21 06:36:29 CEST 2005
Good idea... I've updated my copy, and thanks for the 'sed' magic.
Note also pd/extra, some of whose subdirs also have "help" files in them.
I'll hold off on checking the new version in until the CVS repository "main"
branch starts showing the *-help.pd names...
cheers
Miller
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:18:05PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> I would like to rename the Pd core help files in CVS so that they
> conform to the naming convention *-help.pd. Currently, they are in the
> deprecated format help-*.pd. There are two ways for this to happen:
> add and remove the files from CVS, or put in a support request to
> sourceforge to have them rename them in CVS. The later option is
> preferred because then the CVS history is preserved.
>
> This script will rename the files for you if you run it in pd/doc:
>
> #------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for helpfile in help-*.pd ; do
> mv "$helpfile" "`echo $helpfile | sed
> 's/^help\-\(.*\)\.pd$/\1-help.pd/'`"
> done
> #------------
>
> Once we agree to this, I'll put in the SourceForge support request. It
> generally takes them less than a week to fulfill such requests.
>
> .hc
>
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