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Ferry Boender

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Read the POSIX standard

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Stop reading your local manual pages when programming/scripting stuff, and use the POSIX standard instead:

Online POSIX 2008 (EEE Std 1003.1-2008) standard

There are four main parts:

Some Do’s and Dont’s:

Finally, read Bash Pitfalls to learn why your shell scripting sucks.

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