README.md

This repo contains Bourne shell templates, scripts, snippets, and a playground that I use to experiment with new concepts. This is the boilerplate I start most production quality scripts from, and now you can to! Wrote a blog about it, wanna see it? Here you go:

• Shell Scripts 1: Bourne back again
• Shell Scripts 2: Script utilities
• Shell Scripts 3: Program flow control
• Shell Scripts 4: Signals, Traps, and Docker scripts

Resources

Alpine Linux

• Home
• Wiki
• Packages

Bourne

Alpine Linux uses the Bourne shell packaged with BusyBox - the Almquist shell, aka 'A Shell', 'ash' or 'sh'.

Standards & Man pages

• IEEE Std 1003.1-2017 (POSIX.1-2017) sh
• IEEE Std 1003.1-2017 (POSIX.1-2017) utiilty arg syntax
• IEEE Std 1003.1-2017 (POSIX.1-2017) getopts
• Alpine Linux ash (sh) man page
• Heirloom Bourne shell man page
• FreeBSD Bourne shell man page

Tutorials

• WikiBooks: Bourne Shell Scripting
• Bourne shell command language
• bash-hackers getopts tutorial

Tips and tricks type articles

• https://codeburst.io/13-tips-tricks-for-writing-shell-scripts-with-awesome-ux-19a525ae05ae
• http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html

Character color control

• Standard ECMA-48 - see SGR - SELECT GRAPHIC RENDITION.
• Color codes in the shell

TODO

• Create an alpine derived docker image that includes docker and test the docker scripts