Well, since source code can be so strange, I'd guess that it's not possible to do, but close.
I think that the header line is critical for scripting. I.E.
for FILE in `ls /usr/local/scripts` ; do
TEST=`cat $FILE|grep ^#|head -1`
case $TEST in
*ksh) SCR_LANG="korn" ;;
*csh) SCR_LANG="c-shell" ;;
*perl*) SCR_LANG="perl" ;;
*sh) SCR_LANG=borne" ;;
*) SCR_LANG="I have no clue" ;;
esac
^^Order is critical, as with *sh first ksh and csh would be considered borne.
Okay, so this part was easy, but now you get to compiled languages. My guess is that your looking for souce C/C++/Fortran/Cobol/etc...?
Been a while since Cobol, so my best guess is to "grep table $FILE", as cobol does not use arrays like other languages. If there is a table defined, it's Cobol.
The rest is very very difficult. Your better to go by extension. Why?
C++, C, and Fortran are very similar. Depending on the code, the same basic functions can look the same between C and C++, similar with fortran and pascal.
This would leave looking at include statements for what language it is.
How many differences between #include and #define are there between C and C++? None.
Regards,
Shannon
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