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Discussion on: Writing Bash Scripts Like A Pro - Part 1 - Styling Guide

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Bence Szabo

Nice! I'm happy to see that somebody agrees that bash is still relevant and is worth to learn.
Will you cover the readonly "qualifier"?

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Meir Gabay

I'm using Bash across most of my projects, so for me it's definitely here to stay :)

Truth be told, I haven't used readonly in any script, ever. I guess it's best practice to create immutable variables with:

declare -r VAR_NAME="CONSTANT_VALUE"
VAR_NAME="trying-to-change-value"
# Output
# bash: VAR_NAME: readonly variable
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Looks cool and easy to implement, I might adopt it in my future scripts.