Shell Scripting

Naming Standards Practices Programming Shell Scripting

Moving to using dash ‘-‘ as a delimiter

Ronald Bradford
November 22, 2021

Spaces or tabs. Using 2 spaces verses 4 spaces. Defining variables as lowercase v InitCap, environment variables UPPERCASE or not, using underscore ‘_’ or dash ‘-‘ as a separator. These are all un-winnable discussions among your friends and colleagues.

Linux Programming Shell Scripting

Loops in shell scripting

Ronald Bradford
March 19, 2015

If you are die hard Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) scripter, it can be a challenge not to be enticed by the syntax niceties of the Born Again Borne Shell (/bin/bash). One example is the `{.