Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things

Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by mmh0000 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:56PM (#33362294)

What? The awk manual is only 827 highly technical pages[1]. If you can't read and interalize that in an hour, I suspect you're a much worse programmer than the OP.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

For the sarcasm impared among us, everything above this, but possibly including this sentence is sarcasm.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by sargstuff on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:46AM (#33371980)

Think the more relevant script equivalent of 'Everything in this statement is false.' is 'All output must return false to have true side effects.'

The quick one ~ true ~ fix was ! or #! without the 1024k copyright.

s-expression notation avoids the issue with (."contents")

MS Windows interpretation is much more terse & colorful.

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