Forward function declarations in a Bash or a Shell script?

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Great question. I use a pattern like this for most of my scripts:

#!/bin/bash

main() {
    foo
    bar
    baz
}

foo() {
}

bar() {
}

baz() {
}

main "$@"

You can read the code from top to bottom, but it doesn’t actually start executing until the last line. By passing "$@" to main() you can access the command-line arguments $1, $2, et al just as you normally would.

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