小技巧
使用$(command)
而不是反引号。
嵌套的反引号要求用反斜杠转义内部的反引号。而 $(command)
形式嵌套时不需要改变,而且更易于阅读。
例如:
# This is preferred:
var="$(command "$(command1)")"
# This is not:
var="`command \`command1\``"
小技巧
推荐使用[[ ... ]]
,而不是[
,test
, 和/usr/bin/[
。
因为在 [[
和 ]]
之间不会有路径名称扩展或单词分割发生,所以使用
[[ ... ]]
能够减少错误。而且 [[ ... ]]
允许正则表达式匹配,而
[ ... ]
不允许。
# This ensures the string on the left is made up of characters in the
# alnum character class followed by the string name.
# Note that the RHS should not be quoted here.
# For the gory details, see
# E14 at http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/FAQ
if [[ "filename" =~ ^[[:alnum:]]+name ]]; then
echo "Match"
fi
# This matches the exact pattern "f*" (Does not match in this case)
if [[ "filename" == "f*" ]]; then
echo "Match"
fi
# This gives a "too many arguments" error as f* is expanded to the
# contents of the current directory
if [ "filename" == f* ]; then
echo "Match"
fi
小技巧
尽可能使用引用,而不是过滤字符串。
Bash足以在测试中处理空字符串。所以,请使用空(非空)字符串测试,而不是填充字符,使得代码更易于阅读。
# Do this:
if [[ "${my_var}" = "some_string" ]]; then
do_something
fi
# -z (string length is zero) and -n (string length is not zero) are
# preferred over testing for an empty string
if [[ -z "${my_var}" ]]; then
do_something
fi
# This is OK (ensure quotes on the empty side), but not preferred:
if [[ "${my_var}" = "" ]]; then
do_something
fi
# Not this:
if [[ "${my_var}X" = "some_stringX" ]]; then
do_something
fi
为了避免对你测试的目的产生困惑,请明确使用`-z`或者`-n`
# Use this
if [[ -n "${my_var}" ]]; then
do_something
fi
# Instead of this as errors can occur if ${my_var} expands to a test
# flag
if [[ "${my_var}" ]]; then
do_something
fi
小技巧
当进行文件名的通配符扩展时,请使用明确的路径。
因为文件名可能以 -
开头,所以使用扩展通配符 ./*
比 *
来得安全得多。
# Here's the contents of the directory:
# -f -r somedir somefile
# This deletes almost everything in the directory by force
psa@bilby$ rm -v *
removed directory: `somedir'
removed `somefile'
# As opposed to:
psa@bilby$ rm -v ./*
removed `./-f'
removed `./-r'
rm: cannot remove `./somedir': Is a directory
removed `./somefile'
小技巧
应该避免使用eval。
当用于给变量赋值时,Eval解析输入,并且能够设置变量,但无法检查这些变量是什么。
# What does this set?
# Did it succeed? In part or whole?
eval $(set_my_variables)
# What happens if one of the returned values has a space in it?
variable="$(eval some_function)"
小技巧
请使用过程替换或者for循环,而不是管道导向while循环。在while循环中被修改的变量是不能传递给父shell的,因为循环命令是在一个子shell中运行的。
管道导向while循环中的隐式子shell使得追踪bug变得很困难。
last_line='NULL'
your_command | while read line; do
last_line="${line}"
done
# This will output 'NULL'
echo "${last_line}"
如果你确定输入中不包含空格或者特殊符号(通常意味着不是用户输入的),那么可以使用一个for循环。
total=0
# Only do this if there are no spaces in return values.
for value in $(command); do
total+="${value}"
done
使用过程替换允许重定向输出,但是请将命令放入一个显式的子shell中,而不是bash为while循环创建的隐式子shell。
total=0
last_file=
while read count filename; do
total+="${count}"
last_file="${filename}"
done < <(your_command | uniq -c)
# This will output the second field of the last line of output from
# the command.
echo "Total = ${total}"
echo "Last one = ${last_file}"
当不需要传递复杂的结果给父shell时可以使用while循环。这通常需要一些更复杂的“解析”。请注意简单的例子使用如awk这类工具可能更容易完成。当你特别不希望改变父shell的范围变量时这可能也是有用的。
# Trivial implementation of awk expression:
# awk '$3 == "nfs" { print $2 " maps to " $1 }' /proc/mounts
cat /proc/mounts | while read src dest type opts rest; do
if [[ ${type} == "nfs" ]]; then
echo "NFS ${dest} maps to ${src}"
fi
done