check-no-em-dash.sh

scripts/check-no-em-dash.sh

1. #!/usr/bin/env bash
2. # House style: no em dashes anywhere in the repository, lockfiles included.
3. set -euo pipefail
4. cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
5. dash=$(printf '\xe2\x80\x94') # U+2014, built from its bytes so this file does not contain one
6. if git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep -nIF -e "$dash" -- 2>/dev/null; then
7. echo "Em dashes found (above). Rewrite the sentence." >&2
8. exit 1
9. fi
10. echo "no em dashes"