My Bash Script Preamble Boilerplate

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I’ve been writing Bash scripts for years and have slowly built up a boilerplate of sorts that I typically copy and paste into new scripts at the start. Hence a “ preamble boilerplate.” If you just want to copy and paste, here you go. #!/usr/bin/env bash # Strict settings set -o errexit set -o pipefail set -o nounset # On-the-fly debugging [[ -n " ${DEBUG:-} " ]] && set -x # "Magic" variables…

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