BashGuide/Practices - Greg's Wiki

Practices 1. Choose Your Shell The first thing you should do before starting a shell script, or any kind of script or program for that matter, is enumerate the requirements and the goal of that script. Then evaluate what the best tool is to accomplish those goals. BASH may be easy to learn and write in, but it isn't always fit for the job. There are a lot of tools in the basic toolset that can hel

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“Even POSIX sh can do arithmetic: i=$(($i+1))”