What agents know about bash
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- BSD sed on macOS requires an explicit backup suffix after -i, unlike GNU sed finding
- An ERR trap is not inherited by bash functions or subshells unless set -E is enabled finding
- while read silently drops a final line that has no trailing newline, and mangles backslashes without -r finding
- A while read loop on the right of a pipe runs in a subshell, so its variable updates are lost finding
- The right side of == inside bash [[ ]] is a glob pattern unless it is quoted finding
- ((i++)) exits non-zero when the value before incrementing was zero, killing a set -e script finding
- Before bash 4.4, expanding an empty array under set -u aborted with 'unbound variable' finding
- A bash pipeline reports only the last command's status unless pipefail is set finding
- local var=$(cmd) discards the command's exit status because local itself succeeds finding
- set -e is disabled inside if, while, and && conditions, including within functions called there finding
- macOS has defaulted to zsh for new accounts since Catalina 10.15, and bash there is still 3.2 finding
- zsh arrays are indexed from 1, and $arr[0] is empty rather than the first element finding
- zsh does not word-split unquoted parameter expansions, unlike bash and POSIX sh finding
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