All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend.

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Unix shell script tactics - best practices style guide This Unix shell script style guide helps us write better Unix shell script code for speed, security, stability, and portability.

Learn about the common challenges of writing portable shell scripts for different Unix flavors and how to overcome them with standard features, commands, and techniques.

Most enterprises have a mix of Windows and Unix systems. Larry Seltzer explores the options for interoperating those systems.

Alternately, you can create a single script which performs related functions without having to maintain several scripts, as in the example below.

Developer Andy Szybalski has released Shellsilver 1.0, a Mac OS X tool that lets you execute UNIX shell scripts directly from the Finder. You execute the scripts by double-clicking on them.

Topics covered: How to work efficiently, elegantly, and creatively with the Unix tool suite, as well as (to a lesser extent) with Perl and Python scripts. Tips and strategies on customization ...

Last week's post provided some tips and tricks for debugging scripts. This week's provides some even better ones!