Add setup script for symlinking this repos contents directly form /usr/share/joe/syntax

misc/ln-joe-syntax.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+SRC=`pwd`
+DST="/usr/share/joe/syntax"
+#DST="/tmp/js"
+
+if [ "$UID" -ne 0 ]; then
+	echo "You should run this as root. Else you may not have suitable rights to modify $DST."
+	echo "If this is incorrect plz modify this script. Exit."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ ! -e $DST ]; then
+	echo "The destination directory for JOEs syntax files does not exist: $DST"
+	echo "Note that the default location is correct on Debian systems so plz modify this script for your system."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "This script will replace all *.jsf files from $DST (the 'originals')"
+echo "which exist in $SRC (the 'improved') too after backing them up"
+echo "with symlinks pointing to $SRC/<file> if not already done so."
+echo
+
+read -p "Do you want to continue? (y/n): " answer
+
+if [ "$answer" != "y" ]; then
+	echo "You did not answer exactly with 'y', abort."
+	exit 2
+fi
+
+find $SRC -name "*.jsf" | while read file_src; do
+	name=`basename $file_src`
+	file_dst="$DST/$name"
+	echo -n "$name: "
+	
+	if [ -h $file_dst ]; then
+		echo "is already a symlink, skip."
+		continue
+	fi
+	if [ -e $file_dst ]; then
+		echo -n "backup to $file_dst.orig, "
+		mv $file_dst "$file_dst.orig"
+	fi
+	echo "create symlink."
+	ln -s $file_src $file_dst
+done