discuss: Re: Bash scripting guide
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Fwd: Bash scripting guide
From:
Randy Kramer ####@####.####
Date:
7 Feb 2011 15:57:36 +0000
Message-Id: <201102071056.25161.rhkramer@gmail.com>
I think it would be interesting / useful for someone who has less
limited knowledge of bash scripting to comment on the contention that
the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" teaches bad practices.
If that is true, something should be done. The least might be to add a
note in the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" and mention those sites
that teach better practices.
I am not knowledgable enough myself to think about making that judgement
(unless it is egregiously bad). (I surprised myself some years ago
when I could recognize that one or more of the C or C++ programming
guides was egregiously bad.)
Randy Kramer
PS: The contention isn't that it is out-of-date, but that it teaches bad
practices (which might (or might not) be a result of it being
out-of-date).
On Monday 07 February 2011 02:46:30 am jdd-tldp wrote:
> Le 07/02/2011 02:08, Sergiusz Pawlowicz a écrit :
> > Hi, we have received such a letter on feedback email address, what
> > do you think about it?
>
> this HOWTO *is not* obsolete, the last revision is less than a year
> old (and bash scripting is not that changing fast).
>
> I make the author aware of the problem setting nhim as recipient of
> this mail (hey Mendel :-).
>
> Anyway, we *never* link to other site in place of having a HOWTO.
>
> to follow. I have very limited knowledge of bash scripting
>
> jdd
>
> > s.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Taylan Ulrich B. ####@####.####
> > Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 00:33
> > Subject: Bash scripting guide
> > To: ####@####.####
> >
> >
> > I'd like to mention that the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" is
> > largely considered to teach bad practices.
> >
> > Greg's Wiki [http://mywiki.wooledge.org/] and the Bash Hackers Wiki
> > [http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/] are both better maintained sources
> > with higher quality information.
> > I would propose a link to those two pages in place of the default
> > bash guide supplied on TLDP.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Taylan
> >
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