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Old 12-05-2001
Java Unix Coding Standards

Hi,

I am looking for some coding standards for Unix Shell Scripting. Can anyone help me out in this?

Regards,
Himanshu
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Old 12-06-2001
What do you mean by standards?
Do you want something that portable to most Unix systems? If so, check POSIX, and write your shell scripts in sh...
# 3  
Old 12-06-2001
I wanted some documentation for standards for writing shell scripts in a Unix environment. My company is a CMM level 5 certified company and I am working on defining some basic coding standards for writing shell scripts in Unix.

Can some one help?
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Old 12-06-2001
To my knowledge, there are no specific
"Unix Shell Script Coding Standards".

I suggest you take a look at various standards
for other languages (Perl, Tcl/Tk, Python, etc.)
and based on your internal requirements,
take what you like and leave the rest.

Look at...
http://www.meurrens.org/ip-Links/Java/joodcs/Baker.html

Hope this helps.
 
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