Caius Theory

Now with even more cowbell…

Bash script setup

Recently I’ve been writing a bunch of bash scripts for various things. As some up-front safety checks I’ve taken to opening every script with the following:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

[[ "$TRACE" ]] && set -o xtrace
set -o errexit
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail
set -o noclobber

Other things I’m also trying to be good about doing:

And some useful reading I ran across in my quest to level up bash-scripts: