DeveloperWiki:Bash Coding Style

Note: The style on this page applies to Arch Linux software projects, not code snippets on ArchWiki articles.

Policy

• encoding is utf-8
• use #!/bin/bash
• indent with tabs
• tabs have 8 characters
• do not use more than 132 columns
• opening braces are top right, closing are bottom left:

foo() {
        echo bar
}

• if and for statements are like this:

if true; then
        do something
else
        do something else
fi

for i in a b c; do
        echo $i
done

• use single quotes if a string does not contain parseable content
• use source instead of .
• use $() instead of ``