From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 22:21:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC8016A420; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:21:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E3243D70; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:21:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA1MKq7E035587; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jA1MKph1035586; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:20:51 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Eric F Crist Message-ID: <20051101222051.GA24702@thought.org> References: <20051031212138.4456283C0D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200510312218.13261.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <20051101011146.GA14135@thought.org> <20051101013050.GA10120@flame.pc> <20051101055104.GA15533@thought.org> <20051101121414.GB1051@flame.pc> <20051101185922.GB67660@thought.org> <2011CB42-5C96-4315-AD73-A17B39589CBF@secure-computing.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2011CB42-5C96-4315-AD73-A17B39589CBF@secure-computing.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:21:09 -0000 On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:12:56PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > On Nov 1, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > What's the best way of suggesting that we (fbsd.org) support a > >page of > > "best scripts"?? > > > > (Another beneficial project that would only require > > mailing in a function or n functions would be to submit > > functions that do a given task. A few lines of description > > and example use, of course.) > > > > gary > > > > PS: I've cc'd www with this. If anybody is interested, > > let's discuss it. --At least a collection of > > best /bin/sh scripts. > > > It's been too long since I contributed... I'd be willing to discuss > and perhaps help out in some manner with a project like this. > > > I think if you point at bsd.thought.org you'll find a stub; it was to have been for a BSD sysadmin book. Ran out of steam. Anyway, like everybody doing this kind of volunteer work, I've got negative time:-) But the space for some text-only scripts. Let's say we request people submit only their sh script (to start). What would the format need to be so that a script could parse email and auto-HTML the script?' I suggested a few headers [in all CAPS]; what else? gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix