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Added curly-braces-in-script hint

Signed-off-by: Andreas Hofmann <mail@andreas-hofmann.org>
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Andreas Hofmann 8 years ago
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- When writing scripts you may want to put all of your code in curly braces:
```sh
{
# Your code here
}
```
If the closing brace is missing, your script will be prevented from executing due to a syntax error. This makes sense when your script is going to be downloaded from the web, since it prevents partially downloaded scripts from executing.
- Know about "here documents" in Bash, as in `cat <<EOF ...`.
- In Bash, redirect both standard output and standard error via: `some-command >logfile 2>&1` or `some-command &>logfile`. Often, to ensure a command does not leave an open file handle to standard input, tying it to the terminal you are in, it is also good practice to add `</dev/null`.

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