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Re: [Help-bash] starting a central bash script repository

From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] starting a central bash script repository
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 18:57:37 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (LMD 1167 2008-08-23) 
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:


On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Peng Yu wrote:


Bash code is not reusable in any sane way.  You can't pass array names
to functions, for example


 One certainly can pass array names to functions. I have a library
 of functions that take array names as arguments:
 <http://cfajohnson.com/shell/?2013-01-08_bash_array_manipulation>.


   I should have given this URL: <http://cfajohnson.com/shell/arrays/>


(this is the #1 problem with writing "libraries" of bash code).


 I don't have any problem writing libraries of bash code; I have
 dozens of them.




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   Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
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   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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