From a6a28c7b878cad19c9ceb81eff52b5646736402d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:01:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improve 1998/bas2/try.sh

Get CC, defaulting to cc.
---
 1998/bas2/try.sh | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/1998/bas2/try.sh b/1998/bas2/try.sh
index 08a76ae35..2bcacde81 100755
--- a/1998/bas2/try.sh
+++ b/1998/bas2/try.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # 
-# try.sh - demonstrate 1998/bas2
-#
-# If any args are specified it checks if it's a readable file and if it is it
-# feeds it to the program. If not it assumes it's a string and feeds that to the
-# program.
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 1998/bas2
 #
 
-make all || exit 1
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
 
 echo "$ ./bas2 < bas2.c" 1>&2
 ./bas2 < bas2.c