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DeveloperWiki:Bash Coding Style

This article is part of the DeveloperWiki

Outline

A policy to govern the bash coding style in PKGBUILDs, initscripts, and any other bash we write ourselves and package.

Accepted

This policy has not yet been officially accepted.

Policy

• encoding is utf-8
• use #!/bin/bash
• indent with tabs
• tabs have 4 characters
• don't use more than 132 columns
• opening braces are top right, closing are bottom left:

foo() {
    echo bar
}

• if and for statements are like this:

if true; then
    do something
else
    do something else
fi

for i in a b c; do
    echo $i
done

• use single quotes if a string does not contain parseable content
• use source instead of .

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