TBF, half of the supposed footguns are people not understanding the difference between a command shell and a scripting language and trying to write code as if t

TBF, half of the supposed footguns are people not understanding the difference between a command shell and a scripting language and trying to write code as if they were using the latter[1], and the other half are defects of specific shell languages rather than shell programming in general[0], but the lack of a decent implementation kind of hamstrings the latter defence. 0: There is no reason why a shell couldn't fix bugs like: $ echo "$X" * $ echo $X foo.txt bar.mp4 it's just that none of the common ones do. 1: especially the incessant stupidity about adding type information to pipes, as if grep were a function rather than the arbitrary binary file /bin/grep