Identical Tools

Early on in this toolkit development it became clear that Bash as a language was lacking a few features - largely the ability to ensure and guarantee that code snippets across functions remain identical - basically no easy way to generate code templates which are re-used throughout the code.

So as a solution the identicalCheck and identicalRepair tools were added which scans code for specific patterns and ensures everything is kept in sync.

You may define any line and count-based token to delimit your code and define as many tokens as needed. Internally, Zesk Build uses:

# IDENTICAL tokenName 1
# _IDENTICAL_ tokenName 1
# __IDENTICAL__ tokenName 1
# DOC TEMPLATE: tokenName 1

The IDENTICAL ones are used for bash code while the DOC TEMPLATE: pattern is used for comment/arguments which are identical across functions.

You may re-use these tokens in your own code or create your own.

Identical Features

Singles Reporting

The point of the identical matching is to ensure that code matches in two places; after a scan the identical matching will list tokens which have a single instance only - while it may not be an error, it may prove useful to remove