# Automating with convention: Introducing sub - Host: [signalvnoise.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/signalvnoise.com/) - Saved: October 7, 2012 (2012-10-07T16:27:40Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aad26cb960e0/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aad26cb960e0.json ## What Jamie wrote This seems like a smart idea that many organizations could emulate.
37 works in a deceptively simply manner: an executable (bin/37) parses out subcommands, which map to a single script in the repos libexec/ directory. This gave convention to our scrappy outfit of battle-hardened shell scripts. No longer were they to be randomly named misfits! They each now were subcommands of 37, organized and named by a convention of libexec/37-SUBCOMMAND. Our first recruits were 37 console, 37 sftp, and 37 scp, and many more subcommands have been drafted since.
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