Talk:Bash Shell Scripting

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Table of Contents
Suggestion to improve navigability in this useful Bash Wikibook: replace Table of Contents with that of the printable version (and adapt links to the different pages).

Splitting Paragraphs
The current way of putting all parts of this book together seems strange, since this is a textbook, not a reference or a manual. What's more, the text is really long, and is getting longer and longer. We should consider step-by-step chapter arrangement, with a Contents structure like the one in Regular Expressions. --Arthur200000 (discuss • contribs) 00:18, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Or like its French version indeed. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I oppose splitting this books into subpages. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:41, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
 * This is not an argument to change Naming policy. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 10:39, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

This book can be a lot better
Although I enjoyed reading this book I think it lacks a lot of Wikibooks standard, that is one of them has been discussed. apart from that, the explanation is more like a manual page; not a textbook. The numerous use of "foo", "bar" and "baz" especially as values for the variables makes the examples a bit hard to track. Also, there wasn't any explanation about somethings (e.g. the difference between "Et0zl (discuss • contribs) 21:35, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback! I have recently tried to make it more resembling to the Wikibooks standards.--Comrade-yutyo (discuss • contribs) 09:22, 20 July 2022 (UTC)