syntax highlighting for all formats supported by "highlight"

The highlight tool can be given any of the supported file extensions
as its -S parameter. This patch replaces the case-switch by extracting
the extension from the supplied file name and passing it to highlight.
However, this requires a shell supporting the ${var##pattern} syntax,
like dash or bash.

Unknown extensions cause a fall-back to plain text using the --force
switch. Error messages are redirected to /dev/null.

A special case maps Makefile and Makefile.* to the "mk" extension.

The total overhead is reduced by calling "exec highlight". No forks are
needed during script execution.

Signed-off-by: Georg Lukas <georg@op-co.de>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
index 999ad0c..6b1c576 100755
--- a/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
+++ b/filters/syntax-highlighting.sh
@@ -5,2 +5,6 @@
 #
+# This script requires a shell supporting the ${var##pattern} syntax.
+# It is supported by at least dash and bash, however busybox environments
+# might have to use an external call to sed instead.
+#
 # Note: the highlight command (http://www.andre-simon.de/) uses css for syntax
@@ -22,18 +26,9 @@
 
-case "$1" in
-	*.c)
-		highlight -f -I -X -S c
-		;;
-	*.h)
-		highlight -f -I -X -S c
-		;;
-	*.sh)
-		highlight -f -I -X -S sh
-		;;
-	*.css)
-		highlight -f -I -X -S css
-		;;
-	*)
-		highlight -f -I -X -S txt
-		;;
-esac
+# store filename and extension in local vars
+BASENAME="$1"
+EXTENSION="${BASENAME##*.}"
+
+# map Makefile and Makefile.* to .mk
+[ "${BASENAME%%.*}" == "Makefile" ] && EXTENSION=mk
+
+exec highlight --force -f -I -X -S $EXTENSION 2>/dev/null