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Writing Bug-Free Scripts and Debugging the Rest

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The programmer who has never written a buggy program is a figment of someone’s imagination. Bugs are the bane of a programmer’s existence. They range from simple typing errors to bad coding to faulty logic. Some are easily fixed; others can take hours of hunting.

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© 2015 Chris F. A. Johnson and Jayant Varma

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Johnson, C.F.A., Varma, J. (2015). Writing Bug-Free Scripts and Debugging the Rest. In: Pro Bash Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0121-3_10

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