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		midasuni on Oct 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shell script best practices, from a decade of scri... If you need to follow these rules your script probably shouldn’t be written as a shell script.

IshKebab on Oct 27, 2022 [–]

Ha yeah someone should make a single lint "Your script is over 100 lines. You should rewrite it in a sane language!"

iso1631 on Oct 27, 2022 | [–]

Start every script with the boilerplate

  #!/bin/bash
  if [[ `wc -l $0|cut -f 1 -d ' '` -gt 100 ]]
  then
  echo "No, this is too long!"
  exit
  fi

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