On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 12:47:48PM +1000, Martin D Kealey wrote: ... > The problem is that the Shell makes it hard to write good code and easy to > write bad code. > > (“No programmer would ever be lazy.” Yeah, right. I ran a tutorial on Bash > at the 2015 LCA in Auckland, and was abashed (pun intended) to be informed > that one of my example scripts didn't run correctly on some of the > delegates' systems, and it turned out that I'd missed some quotes. Nobody > is completely immune to this.)
For info (pun intended): https://www.shellcheck.net/ may be of help. > You can always contribute to https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ > Thanks for the reminder; I've been meaning to do that. In the 'good old days', somewehere in the 80's, there was a program named 'learn'. You would get (Bourne) shell scripting problems to solve in a restricted cli-environment. It was nice when starting to learn scripting. Unfortunately it has gone off the radar. This comes close: https://www.learnshell.org/ -- Regards, Mike Jonkmans
