From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: david@kdbarto.org
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SH script formatting
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:29:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_RnpxnMCKrKxKU2fHmgPRCAvOpNom5QYaDBJ6XYEhvtcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <300084CC-77EA-44D4-9DB1-DC321B9F3F0B@kdbarto.org>
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There seems to have been a migration over time from the first format to the
second, perhaps a result of C programmers not having a keyword "then",
which Bourne shells (following Algol 68) require. I don't think it matters
much.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 2:52 PM David Barto <david@kdbarto.org> wrote:
> In a brief discussion with a coworker today the question of formatting
> shell scripts came up.
>
> I believed that in the past the preferred format (if there ever were any
> such thing) was
>
> if [ test ]
> then
> statements
> else
> statements
> fi
>
> I can find nothing specific to back this up. More appropriate for COFF
> maybe would
> be a discussion of what format is better
>
> if [ test ]; then
> statements
> else
> statements
> fi
>
> or the above.
>
> No intention to start any kind of flame war about which is better, just
> want to see
> if there is any historical option for one over the other.
>
> David
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2020-09-29 18:42 David Barto
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