Checking Scripts for Syntax Errors

If I'm maintaining a lot of shell scripts in a directory, I usually want to syntax-check them before I check them in.

The file(1) command will mark most of them as shell scripts. The rest are, typically, libraries of shell functions that I name with .sh suffixes.

All shell scripts that file can find:

$ file * | awk -F: '/shell/{print $1}'

plus the libraries

$ file * | awk -F: '/shell/{print $1}' ; echo *.sh

now syntax check them

$ for i in $(file * | awk -F: '/shell/{print $1}' ; echo *.sh); do bash -n $i || echo $i fails; done

Just with command-line recall and editing.