Guideline for one_liners

Guideline for one-liners in Shell.

1. General
2. Format
3. Code style

General

A one-liner ...

• has a description.
• is continued on a single line (for easy maintenance of layout when copying and pasting to a script or terminal).

Format

One-liner files are created in the following format:
(Note: Any section in addition to Description is included if necessary)

# ======= #.  SECTION NAME =====================================

# Description
one-liner

# Description
one-liner

# Description
# Note: Note
one-liner

• Any documentation section other than Description is included if necessary.

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For an example, see one-liners-gnu-linux-output_only-single-value.bash.

Code style

General

Variables

• A variable name uses acronyms whenever possible.

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All other code style rules are up to the contributor.