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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Format your scripts with shfmt Post 302981277 by mvdan on Friday 9th of September 2016 07:26:14 AM
Old 09-09-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
Inside the code are nothing but tabs for indentation.
Why? - Because my tab is equivalent of 8 whitespaces and just imagine the size of the file with all of those tabs replaced by useless whitespaces.
Also it contains for - do - done on seperate lines.
Also it contains while - do - done and others on seperate lines.
Also it contains if - then - else - fi and derivatives on seperate lines.
Also it contains somefunction() - { - } on seperate lines.
None of this matters. The original format is of little significance, since the program is written to change it.

Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
Also it contains ` somecommand ` , also deprecated.
Although items might be deprecated does not mean they are not in use - be aware.

EDIT:-
I forgot to add that this script works on current bash versions on various platforms along with CygWin too.
So replace the word 'deprecated' with 'hidden' until it is completely removed from the bash shell which I suspect will not be for a long while yet...
Deprecated means "don't use, but still supported". I doubt they will ever remove support for these, as that would mean a breaking change.
 

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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with: #! /usr/bin/env atf-sh Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter: #! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. SEE ALSO
atf-sh(3) BSD
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