[Bashburn-info] Some more changes coming at you.

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

Lots of little cleanup stuff.

Lots more reduction in the number of processes that get created.

Henceforth and forthwith, all local variables should be lower case. All 
global variables should be uppercase. This is a *very* old trick I learned 
on an old and now very defunct operating system that required it.

I'm finding lots of global variables that are being set when the simple 
return value of a function could suffice.

I'm finding a few places where a global variable is set unconditionally 
and then tested later to see if something should be done. All ripped out.

More case insensitive stuff ripped out.

All of the read commands are now read -e. Anders, I was not able to 
reproduce your problem that you earlier described: " enter a number and 
press backspace, the prompt gets deleted". If you still see the problem, I 
will need more explicit info on how to reproduce.

I fixed the menu header problem.

is_dir_empty is now actually used all the places where it should have been 
before. Also, it is now greatly simplified.

delete_data had an interesting idea
while true
do
     read soemthing
     if something
     then
        do something
        break
     else
        do something else
        break
     fi
done

instead, how about

read soemthing
if something
then
    do something
else
    do something else
fi

Look Ma! No loops!

Here's a good one:
echo $(du -shL ${BBBURNDIR}) | cut -d ' ' -f 1
becomes
du -shL ${BBBURNDIR} | cut -d $'\t' -f 1

break or continue is wrong unless you're actually in a loop!

I see a number of things like this:

if something
then
     do something
     wait for enter
else
    do something else
    wait for enter
fi

I factored out the wait for enter. In some cases it was slightly dramatic.

Sombody should please look at what I did in audiofunc.sh in named. The 
comment says

 	    # If nothing is entered at the prompt then exit loop.
 	    continue

I assumed the comment was wrong and not the code. It's now restructured.

Here's a good one:
if [[ "$answer" == y ]]
then
     return 0
else
     return 1
fi
is now

[[ "$answer" == y ]]

Remember that status is always equal to the last thing you did.

in xmmsread, I broke out a small bit of awk magic and saved a process:

     done < <(grep -s [Mm][Pp]3 "${FILE}" | grep -v EXTINF)
vs
     done < <(awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1} /mp3/ && !/EXTINF/' "${file}")

Guys, PLEASE look at what I've done. I'm getting lonely here and I need 
you guys to keep me honest. I never make any misteaks but there's this 
thing called Murphy's Ultimate corollary: If it could have gone wrong 
earlier and it didn't, then it ultimately would have been beneficial for 
it to have.


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