[TUHS] SH script formatting
David Barto
david at kdbarto.org
Wed Sep 30 04:42:55 AEST 2020
In a brief discussion with a coworker today the question of formatting shell scripts came up.
I believed that in the past the preferred format (if there ever were any such thing) was
if [ test ]
then
statements
else
statements
fi
I can find nothing specific to back this up. More appropriate for COFF maybe would
be a discussion of what format is better
if [ test ]; then
statements
else
statements
fi
or the above.
No intention to start any kind of flame war about which is better, just want to see
if there is any historical option for one over the other.
David
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