Published : Oct 28, 2020
Not on the current edition
This blip is not on the current edition of the Radar. If it was on one of the last few editions it is likely that it is still relevant. If the blip is older it might no longer be relevant and our assessment might be different today. Unfortunately, we simply don't have the bandwidth to continuously review blips from previous editions of the Radar
Understand more
Oct 2020
Trial
Worth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
Even though tooling has vastly improved in the infrastructure space, writing a shell script may make sense in some cases. Of course, the syntax of shell scripts can only be described as arcane, and as we've less practice writing shell scripts these days, we've come to like ShellCheck, a linter for shell scripts. ShellCheck can be used from the command line, as part of a build or, even better, as an extension in many popular IDEs. The wiki contains a detailed description of several hundred issues that ShellCheck can detect, and most tools and IDEs provide a way to conveniently access the respective wiki page when an issue is found.
