Questions tagged [conventions]
Naming conventions and best practice
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Should my cat utility support multiple keys simultaneously?
So, i was given a task to implement simple version of cat utility. It should support some of GNU keys, for given text returns the same results as real cat utility and i was given this synopsis:
cat [...
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Use underscore or hyphen for a CLI utility name? [closed]
I'm creating a CLI utility which is aimed at *nix OS:es. Let's call it
'Super CLI Project'.
Looking at the latest POSIX Issue 7, 2018 edition - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ - ...
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Setting Application Defaults in Linux /etc/default
Am I being a curmudgeon, or should /etc/default be reserved to settings for the operating system?
I'm seeing systems show up with /etc/default/{company}-environment. The file is typically Tomcat data, ...
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Dot file and an adjacent identically named file without dot?
Is it bad practice to have a dot file and an adjacent identically named file without dot?
Background: We already create a $HOME/.ourapp directory where we store various configuration files, log files,...
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Linux so convention: is the .so link intended to come from dev packages?
On my Ubuntu jammy Linux PC, after installing the libuv1 package (apt-get install libuv1), I noticed that there was a file, named libuv.so.1.0.0 and a symbolic link to it, named libuv.so.1:
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Function's comment is not printed out when putting it before the function's header
A good and well-established guideline for commenting a shell function is to put it before the function's header. I am trying to follow these guidelines as much as I can, but this convention makes it ...
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Is there a character convention for representing stderr?
By convention, stdout is -. Is there something similar for stderr?
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Conventions for the PATH variable's value
I am looking for best practices, or at least conventions, for the PATH variable's value.
In particular, I would like to know
is there any preferred/recommended ordering for the /bin, /usr/bin, and /...
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best practices for adding my own tools and configuration
So, I am currently writing some scripts to gather and bulk report break-in attempts on my server. The scripts itself are working, but I am wondering where I should put my config files and the script ...
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What's the difference between device properties and device attributes in udev?
For udev device entries, what is the technical difference between a "property" and an "attribute"? How are they customarily created (generated?) and used? Which one is the better ...
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Why Linux uses `blah' to quote strings by convention? [duplicate]
While I was reading the document of some Linux utilities, I found that they always quote strings using ` and '. For example, below is an excerpt from the man page of the find utility.
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Display a message in color by a conventional color name such as Red, Green, Blue, etc
WSL with Ubuntu 18.04 and GNU bash, version 4.4.20(1)-release (x86_64-pc).
I wish to display a message with a conventionally named color via argument such as -red, or -green, or -blue or anything like ...
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Where should I source /usr/local/etc/profile from? .bash_profile or /etc/profile?
I know that, by default, bash will source /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile.
Now, suppose I also have machine-specific profile commands in /usr/local/etc/profile (involving stuff that's in /usr/local, ...
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Is it good practice to add the manpage section number to POSIX tools when referring to them? [closed]
I sometimes see people referring to tools, like ls append the manpage section number in parens, like the manpages themselves do (in ls's case ls(1)) in prose/text like answers and comments here on ...
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How to sort filename list (txt-file) by sub-strings of the filename/path with multiple levels. Special challenge: Two types of filename conventions
I'd like to sort the following list of filenames / pathes.
L1_Data/level1/192027/LC08_L1TP_192027_20201126_20210316_01_T1 DONE
L1_Data/level1/192028/LC08_L1TP_192028_20201126_20210316_01_T1 DONE
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