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bash coding standards? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i didnt care about how i wrote my bash scripts, coz i know theyd ultimately be used just by myself. but for the past few day, i've been working on this project, mk-blog which uses some bash scripts, there are chances that others might look at them. besides in work they're asking me maintain a server. so why not learn the standards. but i couldn't find anything good online (i'm gonna blame my search engine lol). so...

i'd appreciate redirections to (official or community) bash coding standards

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

utilize awk if you need to process (=more complex than just grepping) large amounts of text.
- make your awk code conform to at least busybox awk for compability

I once did a sh script that needed (because I wanted a challenge?) to be compatible with vanilla Android shell too. So I needed to test it with regular bash, busybox and mksh+toybox. That was 'fun'.

I've had some initial plans to spllit the code out from that project and develop a "shell" library that would ease building shell scripts that are compatible with different systems... But I bet someone else has already done that.