redact 10 years ago

Followup: whoops. That's not your script, unless you are Aristotle Pagaltzis (http://plasmasturm.org/log/457/). I've tried to contact him. Next time I shall try to pay more attention. Perhaps it would help if you'd cite the author of scripts you employ in tips.

redact 10 years ago

Yeah, this is good stuff ;-). Thank you!

I want to make one report of a failure that I don't understand, but cannot be
attributed to your script in an unaltered form. I want to be clear: I changed
your script and then it failed ;-/. So you can completely ignore this; but I
don't think my reason for the change was ridiculous. I'll describe that change
in a moment.

The script (above) named vistafonts-installer did not run to successful
completion. Well, so it goes, even with 'simple' scripts, I've found. The
failing command is the chmod expression in (at present) line # 53

( cd ~/.fonts && mv cambria.ttc cambria.ttf && chmod 600 \
calibri{,b,i,z}.ttf cambria{,b,i,z}.ttf candara{,b,i,z}.ttf \
consola{,b,i,z}.ttf constan{,b,i,z}.ttf corbel{,b,i,z}.ttf )

The failure:

chmod: cannot access `calibri{,b,i,z}.ttf': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `cambria{,b,i,z}.ttf': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `candara{,b,i,z}.ttf': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `consola{,b,i,z}.ttf': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `constan{,b,i,z}.ttf': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `corbel{,b,i,z}.ttf': No such file or directory


** Here's the change I made - out of personal preference regarding what
happens in my ~. I created a variable $FONT_DL_TARGET_DIR to place the fonts
in. I edited the script so that all instances of text "~/.fonts" was replaced
by this variable.

PUTIN=$1
FONT_DL_TARGET_DIR=${PUTIN:-~/.local/share/fonts}

Ack that maybe FC expects ~/.fonts as a standard location. The fc-cache
command seemed to work even so.

Rationale is that XDG standards lead to fewer top-level dotdirs and
dotfiles under ~ and that makes it easier to keep myself organized.

So ~/.local/share/fonts is what I think an XDG-conformant choice would look
like.

I'm a passable *sh scriptor when I'm fully awake. IMHO.

In any event: the failure to chmod the files based on that shell expansion you
used is the reason for this comment, and I cannot account for it. My shell is
bash and my platform is LMDE, so my `sh´ ought to be a symlink to /bin/dash
...yup, it is.

I've put my edited version of your script up as a gist at

https://gist.github.com/somian/6054348

Best regards, yours in Minty-Freshness,
redact