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diff --git a/src/content/en/tils/2021/01/17/posix-shebang.adoc b/src/content/en/tils/2021/01/17/posix-shebang.adoc deleted file mode 100644 index 5cf0695..0000000 --- a/src/content/en/tils/2021/01/17/posix-shebang.adoc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ -= POSIX sh and shebangs - -:awk-1: link:../../../2020/12/15/shellcheck-repo.html -:awk-2: link:../12/curl-awk-emails.html - -As I {awk-1}[keep moving] {awk-2}[towards POSIX], I'm on the process of -migrating all my Bash scripts to POSIX sh. - -As I dropped `[[`, arrays and other Bashisms, I was left staring at the first -line of every script, wondering what to do: what is the POSIX sh equivalent of -`#!/usr/bin/env bash`? I already knew that POSIX says nothing about shebangs, -and that the portable way to call a POSIX sh script is `sh script.sh`, but -I didn't know what to do with that first line. - -What I had previously was: - -[source,sh] ----- -#!/usr/bin/env bash -set -Eeuo pipefail -cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" ----- - -Obviously, the `$BASH_SOURCE` would be gone, and I would have to adapt some of -my scripts to not rely on the script location. The `-E` and `-o pipefail` -options were also gone, and would be replaced by nothing. - -I converted all of them to: - -[source,sh] ----- -#!/bin/sh -eu ----- - -I moved the `-eu` options to the shebang line itself, striving for conciseness. -But as I changed callers from `./script.sh` to `sh script.sh`, things started to -fail. Some tests that should fail reported errors, but didn't return 1. - -My first reaction was to revert back to `./script.sh`, but the POSIX bug I -caught is a strong strain, and when I went back to it, I figured that the -callers were missing some flags. Specifically, `sh -eu script.sh`. - -Then it clicked: when running with `sh script.sh`, the shebang line with the sh -options is ignored, as it is a comment! - -Which means that the shebang most friendly with POSIX is: - -[source,sh] ----- -#!/bin/sh -set -eu ----- - -. when running via `./script.sh`, if the system has an executable at `/bin/sh`, - it will be used to run the script; -. when running via `sh script.sh`, the sh options aren't ignored as previously. - -TIL. |