Star Speaking UNIX: More Shell Scripting Techniques
Linked by David Adams on Wed 10th Sep 2008 21:33 UTC, submitted by BlueVoodoo
General Unix How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux.
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RE: Comment by dreamlax
by anomie on Thu 11th Sep 2008 19:45 UTC in reply to "Comment by dreamlax"
anomie
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2007-02-26

Wow, underscores at the beginning of all your script's variable names certainly makes it look uglier.


I'm not crazy about prefixing variables with underscores either, but as long as the script's author is consistent with a convention like that it's not a bad practice.

I actually suffix Bourne shell variables with a 1 (which is probably equally silly) because I'm paranoid that I'll unwittingly conflict with another env variable.

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