Common shell script mistakes (2008)

_lce0 wrote: post #3

illicium wrote: post #2

Shout out to Shellcheck ( http://www.shellcheck.net/ ), a linter for shell scripts

If you're on Sublime, this works like a charm! https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter-shellcheck

If you're on Vim or Emacs you already (maybe) know you have integration with shellcheck

Emacs - https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

Vim - part of syntactic - https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/blob/master/syntax_c...

Re: Common shell script mistakes (2008)

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Post by pvg » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 2:06 AM UTC

The google shell style guide linked now lives here and is probably an even better starting point than this article:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml

Re: Common shell script mistakes (2008)

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Post by gberger » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 2:22 AM UTC

ourmandave wrote: post #4

Written in 2008.

Shell hasn't changed much, if at all, since, has it?

Re: Common shell script mistakes (2008)

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Post by paulddraper » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 2:31 AM UTC

> please be wary of writing scripts that deviate from these abstractions, and have significant data manipulation in the shell process itself.

I appreciate he mentions this first. Shell scripting is excellent in its domain, just as SQL is great in its.

You would write an application in SQL and you shouldn't write one in shell.