Adopting 10 good habits of Unix Scripting

I saw this on a quick fleeting moment on slash.dot .. It covers many things that I have done in the past..

1. Make directory trees in a single swipe.


2. Change the path; do not move the archive.


3. Combine your commands with control operators.


4. Quote variables with caution.


5. Use escape sequences to manage long input.


6. Group your commands together in a list.


7. Use xargs outside of find.


8. Know when grep should do the counting -- and when it should step aside.


9. Match certain fields in output, not just lines.


10. Stop piping cats.