Several people I follow in Twitter have pointed a quite useful looking tools called ShellCheck. It will scan shell script code for common problems that may lead to errors later, especially quoting.
However, the script is written in Haskell, which brings with it a rat’s tail of dependencies if you want to install it on your own Mac.
Since I did not want to bother with that I wrote a script that will grab the code from the frontmost BBEdit window and paste it into the webpage:
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| tell application "BBEdit" | |
| if not (exists text document 1) then | |
| return | |
| end if | |
| if source language of text document 1 is not "UNIX Shell Script" then | |
| set thename to name of text document 1 | |
| display dialog "Document '" & thename & "' does not seem to be a shell script!" | |
| return | |
| end if | |
| set theCode to text of text document 1 | |
| end tell | |
| -- escape some crticial characters | |
| set theCode to replace_chars(theCode, "\\", "\\\\") | |
| set theCode to replace_chars(theCode, quote, "\"") | |
| set theCode to replace_chars(theCode, "'", "\\'") | |
| set theCode to replace_chars(theCode, "\n", "\\n") | |
| tell application "Safari" | |
| open location "http://shellcheck.net" | |
| delay 1 | |
| do JavaScript "document.getElementById('code').value = '" & theCode & "';" in document 1 | |
| do JavaScript "transfer('#code', '#console')" in document 1 | |
| end tell | |
| -- from the ever useful http://macosxautomation.com/applescript/sbrt/sbrt-06.html | |
| on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string) | |
| set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string | |
| set the item_list to every text item of this_text | |
| set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string | |
| set this_text to the item_list as string | |
| set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "" | |
| return this_text | |
| end replace_chars |
by Drop this in your BBEdit Scripts folder and enjoy!
Scripting OS X – Using spellcheck with BBEdit http://t.co/aZdINWe7ko
RT @OSX_adm: Scripting OS X – Using spellcheck with BBEdit http://t.co/aZdINWe7ko
Works for TextWrangler, too “@scriptingosx: Using shellcheck with BBEdit – http://t.co/GvUprATAfN”
RT @eholtam: Works for TextWrangler, too “@scriptingosx: Using shellcheck with BBEdit – http://t.co/GvUprATAfN”
RT @scriptingosx: Using shellcheck with BBEdit – http://t.co/nopF7ZR6PM
RT @scriptingosx: Using shellcheck with BBEdit – http://t.co/nopF7ZR6PM
RT @scriptingosx: Using shellcheck with BBEdit – http://t.co/nopF7ZR6PM
RT @eholtam: Works for TextWrangler, too “@scriptingosx: Using shellcheck with BBEdit – http://t.co/GvUprATAfN”