Design patterns or best practices for shell scripts

Полезное обсуждение на StackOverflow.com: Design patterns or best practices for shell scripts.

Рассказывается о:

• Command line options
• Function calls
• Error prone situations
• Python-like modularization
• OOP
• Trapping and handling signals

И, самое главное:

If you have to use the kind of things I wrote here, it means that your problem is too complex to be solved with shell. Use another language.

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