Create a branch. Run the build. SSH into a Docker container. The developer’s day-to-day life is filled with little actions that require us to type particular orders into the command line. They are so small that we often don’t think much of them, but we run them so often that they end up taking an invisible toll; it feels like they’re getting in the way of real work. This talk will show basic Bash scripting tools to automate most of your common day-to-day tasks, together with some ideas of what you should automate. The content will hopefully ease your work, speed up common activities, and reduce the probability of common (and annoying) mistakes.

1. Power up your
development experience
with Bash scripts
@AbrahamMarin
#CLL19
#ContinuousLifecycle

2. Content
● State of the art
● Why should you do this?
● Examples
● Some Common Gotchas
● Sharing Is Caring!

3. Who am I?
@AbrahamMarin
Developer, Consultant, Writer
Software Plumber

4. Who am I?

5. Who am I?

6. State of the Art

7. State of the Art

8. State of the Art
Cygwin PowerShell

9. Why Should You Do This?

10. Why Should You Do This?
● Commands that you can’t remember
● Simplify complex (and risky) tasks
● Consistency across projects
● Agglutinate tasks
● Run automated checks
● ...

11. Examples

12. Commands that you can’t remember
Interactive Rebase?

13. Simplify complex (and risky) tasks
Change multiple commit messages?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14332551/
whats-the-fastest-way-to-edit-hundreds-of-git-co
mmit-messages

14. Consistency across projects
Run the build

15. Agglutinate tasks
Contribute your changes
- Get the latest from master
- Run the build
- Push your changes

16. Run automated checks
Oh, I forgot that file...

17. Some Common Gotchas

18. Permissions
Files need to be executable!

19. Path
Where are those scripts again?

20. Cross-Platform Compatibility
Homebrew is your friend

21. Sharing Is Caring!

22. github.com/quiram/bash-utils

23. Thank You
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