I’m writing a book about how to write Bash code, and how to write it well.

That book is all about the little things that I would have liked to know when I started putting together my first scripts, contraptions that did what they had to do, but were not pleasant to look to (well, not too much).

One of those contraptions has made it to these days, buried deep down into one of my oldest backups, and I found it while spelunking in search for examples of what not to do in a script.