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cal1j
November 25th, 2014, 06:20 AM
Maybe a silly question, but should I capitalize BASH or leave it lowercase. I know that this is a big deal in perl. What about BASH? I'd rather not look more ignorant than I am :)

vasa1
November 25th, 2014, 06:59 AM
I looked at man bash: It looks like "Bash" is used at the start of a sentence; otherwise it's "bash".

carlwsnyder
November 26th, 2014, 03:34 AM
You capitalize BASH when you refer to its name as the Bourne Again SHell, but use bash or /bin/bash when referring to the procedure.

trent.josephsen
November 26th, 2014, 03:46 AM
You capitalize BASH when you refer to its name as the Bourne Again SHell
Nobody I know does, and you'll annoy far more people by capitalizing it unnecessarily than you would by leaving it lowercase. Caps make YOU read slowly AND mess with the FLOW of sentences. Use sparingly.

Habitual
November 26th, 2014, 07:35 PM
I looked at man bash: It looks like "Bash" is used at the start of a sentence; otherwise it's "bash".

huh?

NAME
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell

n/m. I'm tired.

Carry on...

vasa1
November 27th, 2014, 02:59 AM
huh?

NAME
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell

n/m. I'm tired.

Carry on...
huh right back ;)