# Managing the hole

As a lot of us here in gopher  space I also wrote my scripts to manage
my gopher hole. As I only knew bash, NetBSD's ksh was new and exciting
for me. So  I wrote a couple  of ksh scripts: one creates  a new entry
and  calls  `par`  to  justify  the text.  It  shows  the  results  of
justification using  `less` where  I can accept  or decline  it. After
that it calls another script to  update the gopher map. This one reads
the  file list  in the  phlog directory,  sorts them  and creates  the
gophermap. The last  script allows me to edit an  entry by listing all
the entries  in the directory  and letting me  chose one that  will be
opened in vim.

I once  again reinvented  the wheel,  but I need  a "real"  project to
learn a new programming language and this one helped me to learn a lot
about ksh scripting.

Switching from Esperanto to English was also easy as I already had all
the  config in  variables  at the  beginning of  the  scripts. I  just
extracted  these to  a  separate  file that  I  simply  source at  the
beginning of my individual scripts.