Shell script explainability and optimization using Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer offers a simple interface for achieving code explainability and optimization. For more details on explainability and optimization, please refer to Chapter 12.

To illustrate, I am going to use the previously auto-generated code during the shell script creation task. As shown in the following screenshot, highlight the code, right-click to open the pop-up menu, select Amazon Q, and choose Explain for code explainability or Optimize for optimization recommendations:

Figure 8.22 – Shell – Amazon Q explainability and optimization

This will pop up Amazon Q Developer’s chat-style interface and move the full code for analysis.

For explainability, Amazon Q Developer provided details for each line of code and, at the end, provided a summary: “In summary, this shell script takes a file name as an argument, checks if the file exists and is readable...