[olug] sed issues inside of a script

[Obi-Wan]

> As a related aside, is there a good document with best practices for
> shell scripting?  My Google prowess failed me on that aspect. A book
> would do as well.  I've just sorta picked this stuff up along the way
> and I'd like to read over the "right" ways to do things.

Man pages are always good (they're what I've been quoting here today).
For books, I've been fond of Unix Power Tools, now in its 3rd edition:

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Tools-Third-Shelley-Powers/dp/0596003307/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-8763854-0693702?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194995273&sr=8-1

I own the 1st ed, published in 1993.  I imagine the 3rd ed speaks
more fondly of perl than the 1st ed did.  Perl was pretty young back
then.  I like this book because it tackles subjects in short, goal-
oriented sections, rather than just paraphrasing the man pages.  It
includes a lot of esoteric features and gotchas that are easily
overlooked in other sources.  It's also huge -- the index alone
is 67 pages.

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Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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