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3 bash best practices — First published in fullweb.io issue #9
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3 bash best practices

Exit immediately if a command exits with a non-zero status:

set -e

Display the next command to be executed:

set -x

Use the right shebang, this is more portable than #!/bin/bash:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
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