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Two simple tricks for better shell script error handling
Psssst. Hey you... yeah you. Word on the street is your shell scripts don't do any error handling. They just chug happily along even when everything is broken. Because a lowly …
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Smack yourself if you don't use generic shell script hooks
Smack yourself in the forehead if you don't use the following snippet (or an equivalent) in all custom shell scripts that could benefit from a hooking mechanism: run_scripts() { …
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Friends don't let friends program in shell script
Lately I've been going over a hellish patch-work of old shell scripts we wrote to automate some internal processes and I realized something: friends shouldn't let friends program …