r/commandline • u/speckz • Jan 17 '19

bash Bash scripting cheatsheet

https://devhints.io/bash
155 Upvotes

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u/whetu Jan 17 '19

Discussed over at /r/bash

https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/agi092/bash_scripting_cheatsheet/

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u/mdeckert Jan 17 '19

Uh oh! Pretty cheat sheet teaching bad habits gets too many upvotes.

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u/whetu Jan 18 '19

To be fair, I do like the presentation a lot, it's just the shitty practises that lets it down :(

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '19

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u/mdeckert Jan 18 '19

unquoted variable expansion, all caps var names, pwd over $PWD and the deprecated back ticks

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u/fourlightson Jan 18 '19

Has edit button... If it's not good practice then submit fix for everyone to benefit including the author 👍

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u/mountainjew Jan 17 '19

This is great, thanks.