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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>I personally prefer my variable expansions to be *always* bracketed,
>whether they need it lexically or not, simply because it causes the
>variable names to stand out better in the text.

I prefer minimal punctuation because it is faster to type and easier
to read.

Maybe we need a style guide for shell scripts too :-).

Bruce