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Type-ish – A runtime type checker for bash, in bash
- goncaloo 4y agoThis looks pretty cool! I can't ever imagine using it tho :) If my bash scripts are so complex or critical that I feel the need to type check, I will probably use another scripting language where I can do that more easily while still having readable code.
- kreetx 4y agoIf you ever check your arguments for any properties then this could still help, you'll have a systematic approach instead of an ad hoc one.
- sam_ezeh 4y ago>It is also a very cursed idea taken way too far, and I do not apologize for it Agreed XD It's a really nice idea but I cannot ever see myself writing bash like this
- MauranKilom 4y ago> the builtin types are: > [...] > boolean: a shortcut for returning a number (as numbers are booleans). Can someone explain? I can understand booleans being numbers (e.g. #define TRUE 1 in C), but how are numbers booleans in bash?
- EdSchouten 4y agoBooleans in shell scripts are little more than zero (true) and non-zero (false) exit codes.
- MauranKilom 4y agoOk, right. But then it should still say either "booleans are just numbers" or "numbers can be interpreted as booleans, i.e. are truthy or falsy".
- ancientsofmumu 4y agoIt's not that cut & dry, as bash is doing evaluations; 0 and 1 can both be "true" if simply used without an evaluation, but add logic and it starts to matter (grep returns 0 if hit, 1 if not). [[ 0 ]] && echo "hit 0" [[ 1 ]] && echo "hit 1" grep -q 127 /etc/hosts && echo "hit grep" grep -q 128 /etc/hosts || echo "miss grep"
- unhammer 4y agoSince no one has said it yet, please always use https://www.shellcheck.net/ https://www.shellcheck.net/ on your scripts, you don't want to be That Guy https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
- rob_c 4y agoOh I do love reading those... Shame that shell scripting is still treated as mysterious command line voodoo, even Microsoft has Powershell now showing how powerful the concept is that even they couldn't avoid it entirely
- tyingq 4y agoAh, wow. I like that they ported the accidental behavior deliberately into Windows: Warning: The uninstallation process deletes the folder Steam was installed to to ensure it is fully uninstalled. If you accidentally installed Steam to a folder containing other data, for example C:\Program Files (x86)\ instead of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\..."
- doliveira 4y agoI'm probably being too judgemental, but I don't get how people are so nonchalant about mutability and potentially destructive commands. Even in a Github Gist I'm scared enough to set -euo pipefail, put half a dozen checks before removing a folder...
- synergy20 4y agoshellharden is also great, that semi-automate the process to conform with shellcheck
- bravetraveler 4y agoGeneral recommendation specifically for the Valve-like case: set -o nounset You can check variables as many ways you want, just do this too - safety net in case there's an eventual gap
- j1elo 4y agoAnd use the so-called "Bash unofficial strict mode", as described elsewhere. I prefer this summary of it, because the original includes stuff like changing IFS (the fields separators) which I agree with the Gist author to not include, because it is a Bad Idea to blindly suggest it universally. EDIT: This gist: https://gist.github.com/robin-a-meade/58d60124b88b60816e8349d1e3938615 https://gist.github.com/robin-a-meade/58d60124b88b60816e8349...
- encryptluks2 4y agoI used to somehow think Bash scripts were ideal given that they were fairly transparent, but I'll take a Go app or Rust program anyday now over something written in shell script. shfmt is an example.
- usrbinbash 4y agoWell, they are fairly transparent. The problem is, they have a tendency to suddenly get horribly intransparent when they grow larger than maybe a few dozen lines.
- nchase 4y agoThis is wild. Bravo to the author! (For the tool, and also for really funny documentation and commit history)