[Gllug] ADVERT: Shell Scripting book

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Jul 20 20:33:43 UTC 2011


On 20 Jul 2011, Steve Parker outgrape:

> On 20/07/11 00:05, Tethys wrote:
>> Steve Parker writes:
>>
>>    
>>> Java tendsToInsertCapsLikeThis, which I find veryIrritatingIndeed.
>>>      
>> Yep, I completely agree there. I guess it's just what you're used to,
>> but there is a long standing convention of using upper case only for
>> environment variables. That's how it was when I learned scripting a
>> quarter of a century ago, and old habits are hard to break, so I've
>> stuck with it :-)
>>    
> All shell variables are environment variables;

Certainly not. All environment variables are shell variables, though.
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