Chapter 35. Miscellany

 

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

--Tom Duff

Table of Contents
35.1. Interactive and non-interactive shells and scripts
35.2. Shell Wrappers
35.3. Tests and Comparisons: Alternatives
35.4. A script calling itself (recursion)
35.5. "Colorizing" Scripts
35.6. Optimizations
35.7. Assorted Tips
35.7.1. Ideas for more powerful scripts
35.7.2. Widgets
35.8. Security Issues
35.8.1. Infected Shell Scripts
35.8.2. Hiding Shell Script Source
35.8.3. Writing Secure Shell Scripts
35.9. Portability Issues
35.10. Shell Scripting Under Windows