Meetings

Seat Belts and Airbags for bash

Michael Potter

Tuesday March 25th, 2025
Zoom session will open at 6:45pm (US Central time - Chicago)
with the meeting starting at 7pm CT thru ending around 9pm CT
(with a short review of Group business before the speaker starts), and virtual Meeting After the Meeting (afterwards)

This meeting will be run virtually on-line using our UniForum Chicago Zoom account,
so get the Zoom meeting connection info from the lu.ma link to this same meeting by RSVP'ing Yes there.

Abstract

This is a 5 star rated presentation on speakerrate.com and has been given at least 40 times around the U.S. and Canada.

This presentation will focus on the underutilized features of bash that are critical to building production quality scripts. Demos will show you how to turn on options and error trapping that expose the hidden time bombs in the code.

Turning these features on should be considered a requirement, much like turning on “strict” and “warnings” is considered a requirement for Perl programs.

Also, as much of the bash syntax has become outdated, the presentation will explain which syntax is best to use and which syntax to avoid.

Knowledge of any of the common UNIX scripting languages will be sufficient to understand the presentation and script authors at all proficiency levels should find value in attending. Although the presentation does not address differences between Korn shell and bash, much of what will be discussed also applies to Korn shell.

This will be a virtual meeting on Zoom.

Our live meetings had been held at the Bolingbrook Fountaindale Library but we have been holding our meetings virtually since the pandemic began since March 2020. However, there is now the possibility of holding live meetings going forward but will be decided as each meeting is defined. Are you interested in attending an in-person general meeting?

Bio

Michael Potter is owner and CTO of Tapp Solutions in Atlanta. Tapp Solutions provides a full range of mobile apps to insurance companies around the U.S. Michael's name may be familiar as he was a long time President of UniForum Chicago in the 90s and stayed active as a board member in the 2000s.


Getting to the meeting

This March 2025 General meeting of UniForum Chicago (time as described with the meeting's title above) will NOT be at a physical location, but will be a virtual on-line meeting using a planned Zoom meeting for whom the Zoom URL for connecting to the meeting will be displayed in the Lu.Ma announcement's Location to those.


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