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Re: PATCH: silence Shellcheck warning


From: Ben Elliston
Subject: Re: PATCH: silence Shellcheck warning
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:56:39 +1100

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:50:04PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> shell does not lend itself to being written correctly.  shellcheck
> has proven its worth to me multiple times over, especially because i
> can stop having to point out the same mistakes to people over & over
> that it easily finds.  we've integrated into CrOS & internally at
> Google and people love it.

I agree. In some cases, Shellcheck has corrected my longheld
misunderstandings about various shell constructs. I put this down to
the fact that many people learn Borne shell by reading the broken
scripts of other people rather than a formal book or the man pages.

Ben



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