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| 2 | in_progress: yes
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| 3 | default_highlighter: oils-sh
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| 4 | ---
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| 5 | 
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| 6 | OSH Standard Library - Tiny Code, Evolved Over Years
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| 7 | ===========
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| 8 | 
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| 9 | The [OSH][] standard library runs under both OSH and bash.  ([YSH][] has a
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| 10 | separate standard library.)
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| 11 | 
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| 12 | This doc briefly describes a few hundred lines of code, documented in the Oils
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| 13 | reference:
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| 14 | 
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| 15 | - [Oils Reference](ref/) > [OSH Table of Contents](ref/toc-osh.html)
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| 16 | 
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| 17 | 
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| 18 | [OSH]: $xref
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| 19 | [YSH]: $xref
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| 20 | 
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| 21 | 
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| 22 | <div id="toc">
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| 23 | </div> 
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| 24 | 
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| 25 | ## Intro
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| 26 | 
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| 27 | I use shell as a quick / iterative / incremental development environment.
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| 28 | 
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| 29 | I use "task files" and write down everything I do, so I don't forget them.
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| 30 | 
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| 31 | They evolve and grew over time, but are still small.
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| 32 | 
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| 33 | ### Example of Task File
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| 35 |     : ${LIB_OSH=stdlib/osh}  # to share with bash
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| 36 |     source $LIB_OSH/bash-strict.sh
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| 37 |     source $LIB_OSH/task-five.sh
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| 38 | 
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| 39 |     test-foo() {
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| 40 |       echo hi
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| 41 |     }
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| 42 | 
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| 43 |     task-five "$@"
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| 44 | 
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| 45 | 
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| 46 | ## List of Libraries
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| 47 | 
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| 48 | ### two
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| 49 | 
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| 50 | Trivial functions I use all the time.
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| 51 | 
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| 52 | ### bash-strict
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| 53 | 
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| 54 | Catch errors.
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| 56 | Saves you some boilerplate.
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| 57 | 
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| 58 | ### no-quotes
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| 59 | 
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| 60 | Test framework without extra levels of quoting.  Compare to git sharness.
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| 62 |     nq-capture
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| 63 |     nq-capture-2
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| 64 |     nq-assert
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| 65 | 
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| 66 | ### byo-server
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| 67 | 
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| 68 | - Test discovery
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| 69 | - Probably:
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| 70 |   - task discovery 
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| 71 |   - auto-completion
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| 72 | 
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| 73 | May want to fold this into task-five.
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| 74 | 
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| 75 | ### task-five
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| 76 | 
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| 77 | - Task files
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| 78 | 
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| 79 | ## Appendix
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| 80 | 
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| 81 | ### Why no standard way to set `$REPO_ROOT`?
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| 83 | We commonly use this idiom:
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| 85 |     REPO_ROOT=$(cd $(dirname $0)/..; pwd)
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| 86 | 
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| 87 | But there is no library for it, because there's no standard way for it.  Other
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| 88 | variants I've seen:
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| 90 |     pwd -P          # we use pwd 
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| 91 |     readlink -f $0  
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| 92 | 
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| 93 | That is, there's not one way to do it when symlinks are involved.
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| 94 | 
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| 95 | Most of our scripts must be run from repo root, and there are no symlinks to
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| 96 | them.
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| 98 | (Note that in OSH or YSH you can use `$_this_dir` instead of `$REPO_ROOT`, but
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| 99 | it's not available in bash.)
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