1Shell scripts are the recommended choice for ZEDLETs that mostly call 2other utilities and do relatively little data manipulation. 3 4Shell scripts MUST work on both bash and dash. 5 6Shell scripts MUST run cleanly through ShellCheck: 7 http://www.shellcheck.net/ 8 9General functions reside in "zed-functions.sh". Use them where applicable. 10 11Additional references that may be of use: 12 13 Google Shell Style Guide 14 https://github.com/google/styleguide/blob/gh-pages/shell.xml 15 16 Dash as /bin/sh 17 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh 18 19 Common shell script mistakes 20 http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/shell_script_mistakes.html 21 22 Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it Correctly 23 http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html 24 25 Autoconf: Portable Shell Programming 26 https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Portable-Shell 27 28Please BE CONSISTENT with the existing style, check for errors, 29minimize dependencies where possible, try to be portable, 30and comment anything non-obvious. Festina lente. 31