On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/01/2017 10:00 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> On 2017-08-01 03:00, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> >>> # Add '-s' to interactively set the window to be captured. >>> screenie() { >>> local curdir=$(pwd) >>> local shotname=$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M).png >>> echo "5 seconds! Go go go!" >>> cd ~/img/screens/comp/ >>> scrot -d 5 -q 70 "$shotname" ${@} >>> echo "Screen taken! Find it under ~/img/screens/comp." >>> cd $curdir >>> } >>> >>> (now that I'm looking at it, it could use a spruce up to use pushd/popd >>> instead of storing the starting dir in a variable...) >> >> pushd and popd are bashisms, your current way works with any POSIX shell. >> > That's good to know! > > I went in search of a few portable shell resources. Some suggest to use > dash or posh for the testing environment. I also found shellcheck, which > looks pretty promising (and it's in the tree! Thanks jlec). Do you have > any experience in portable shell scripting? My web search didn't return > a whole lot of good resources. Mostly just Stack Overflow and a few > tutorials which pointed to other resources. > > What do you suggest?
Ash, BusyBox's shell, is a good testing environment. Vim's syntax highlighting will make Bashisms bright red if the shebang line specifies /bin/sh.
