shellmath VS sh

There was a really awful and amazing floating point implementation posted here¹ a couple of years ago, with a few interesting comments too². I remember it in part because I was surprised there wasn't more discussion.

¹ https://github.com/clarity20/shellmath

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250743

* The shell itself is https://github.com/mvdan/sh, a bash-like command interpreter

https://github.com/mvdan/sh

And finally, checkbashisms if you intend on making pure posix scripts that are compatible with debian/ubuntu's dash. It is part of the debian's devscripts suite, but is often individually packaged in other distros.

> Also you can use the chat as a learning tool

Or you could learn from a guide written by people who have suffered decades of experience of the pitfalls of shell scripting and have shared their woes.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

My bad, I completely screwed this up... the as of yet undiscussed project is:

https://github.com/mvdan/sh

(not shmfmt)

I support projects like this for purposes of exploration and practice. But don't expect people to use it when there are already well established projects out there like: https://github.com/mvdan/sh

There are also: - shfmt - sh - bash language server - bashate

I also like running shfmt over my shell scripts so they all look the same without me having to think about whitespace.