The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:47:43PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-11-02 12:42, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:14:40PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 	"CATEORY: foo
> > > > 	"FUNCTION: it_does_this
> > > > 	"OPTIONS: can_do_this_or_that"
> > > >
> > > > 	BEGINSCRIPT
> > > > 	!#/bin/sh
> > > > 	echo "hello world"
> > > > 	ENDSCRIPT
> > >
> > > What happens when the script itself contains a line that starts
> > > with one of the special "markup" lines?
> > >
> >
> > 	AFAIK, the only markup lines this would use would be
> > 	the <TAGS></TAGS>.  A sh script might use the ">" or "<"
> > 	for redirection, but the conversion script would ignore
> > 	everything between
> >
> > 	BEGINSCRIPT
> > 	ENDSCRIPT
> >
> > 	which would make parsing straightforeward.
> 
> Unless the shell script itself contains 'ENDSCRIPT' somewhere ;-)
> 
> This is what I was referring to as "markup".

	Hmmm!   :-)

	Okay, then what about 
	BEGIN_somelonghexstringthatis256byteslong

	and 

	END_somelonghexstringthatis256byteslong

> 

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