Re:Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter
by mdaniel on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:49AM
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Readability is putting it mildly; do you write your shell scripts using that && style? No? Why not, is it for readability?
I also have a hard time reasoning about && with anything other than the most braindead sequence of commands because: $(thing && if other_thing; then inner_thing1 && thing2; fi && ohgawd)
And I just realized while typing that out that if its parser doesn't support ; then I guess one needs to
RUN if conditional_thing \
then good_luck && \
fi && \
echo "whew"
I also have a hard time reasoning about && with anything other than the most braindead sequence of commands because: $(thing && if other_thing; then inner_thing1 && thing2; fi && ohgawd)
And I just realized while typing that out that if its parser doesn't support ; then I guess one needs to