syntax highlight && when used in RUN commands?

[sandywater]

I think it would make for some beautiful Dockerfiles.

Also I have forgotten an && or a \ at the end of a line only to have a 20 min build fail at the last second due to that.

maybe the regex would be ^&& or && \

[jagregory]

This would be a nice compliment to the / highlighting we just added. PRs welcome, otherwise I'll have a look in due course.

[mishak87]

It would make more sense to add shellcheck support instead, by using syntax shell for [ON BUILD] RUN commands.

[xamgore]

@jagregory @mishak87, what do you think about this one?

I inlined the shellscript grammar into the RUN <shell> expression, and also made a support of \.

[jagregory]

I think that looks great!

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[klippx]

@xamgore Could you also please add syntax--operator for the &&? I would love to syntax highlight them a bit differently than echo and test in the examples

[xamgore]

@klippx, there are two ways here. The first one it to make a pull request to the language-shell package. The second one is just to drop the inner shell scope I have made, in favor of self written implementation. I'm not sure what is the best one.

[klippx]

@xamgore I think flagging the thing as syntax--shell is the best solution, go for it! Did you already pull request it?

[xamgore]

@klippx not yet. I want to check whether docker accepts the command with newlines:

RUN for (( i = 0; i < 10; i++ )); do
      echo $i;
done

If it turns out that no, but Atom still hightlights it, then… I will need some time to fix this.

[mishak87]

@xamgore End of line slashes are docker proprietary format. They have nothing to do with shell slashes (command continues on next line). Docker simply join lines together.

RUN a \
b \
  c

Results in:

sh -c 'a_b___c'

Note: I have replaced spaces with undescores to more clearly demonstrate what is happening

[ariasuni]

Still no support for shell syntax highlighting in language-docker? That would be pretty cool.

[aslafy-z]

Agreed, I often use # comments in my shell pipelines and it constantly throws "Empty / bogus instruction is invalid".

RUN true \
# blabla this
  && do_this \
# blabla that
  && do_that