New site for my shell coding page

dwmyers@my-deja.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 5

I don't claim to be in the "Dan Mercer" category as a writer of shell.
Compared to him, I'm a putz. I come here to learn.

I wrote this document to get rid of the frustration I felt when I read
startup scripts with no documentation, no date of creation, no hash
bang at the top, with conditional expressions that scared the devil out
of me..

One such piece, and I wish I remembered the code, was a series of pipes
where "kill 1" was a logical possibility.

Shouldn't you trap for those kinds of things in production code?

David.

Michael Tosch · *nix forums Guru Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 539

dwmyers@my-deja.com wrote:

dwmyers@my-deja.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 5

The title of the page is:

"On the Development of a Shell Scripting Style and Standard"

The url is:

http://home.comcast.net/~dwm042/Standards.htm

There was a time when I could google my own page and it would come up
in the first 5 or so hits on google. That was when it was hosted by
mindspring, which seemed to give a care whether people's home pages
were searchable.

It seems to be invisible now.

So, for those who maintain shell scripting links, I'd like to ask a
favor and if this page is good enough, please include them among your
links.

Yes, it will be of benefit to me, I promise, and thanks.

David.

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