On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:35 PM, David Diggles <[email protected]> wrote: ... > here's an example of how not to script rsync, when just starting > to learn how to script > > it got over complicated over time. i should rewrite it sometime :) ...
I guess I don't understand the point of sending that out. It's like a generic ghost story: "...and the code walks the corridors of the office building to this day! There it is! Ahhhhhhhhh!" If the goal is to help the inexperienced shell script writer avoid that fate, you must provide instruction and suggestions, not just set up your prior works up as warning. The beginner will be dazzled by the mess-o'-punctuation, but that doesn't help them see what they should do instead when they, in turn, find their own scripts crawling into the morass. Philip Guenther
