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See, this is exactly what I mean. :D I would misunderstand as well. Processing plain text is ambiguous and we all carry our own assumptions along for the ride.

See, this is exactly what I mean. :D I would misunderstand as well. Processing plain text is ambiguous and we all carry our own assumptions along for the ride. Bash's traditional huge (and badly formatted on the web) help pages don't help matters as well. I'd think in 2021 we'll have an official "TL;DR: bash gotchas" but I guess not.

hnlmorg 5y ago
In the shell I'm writing you get a preview of what the command is before it's sent so its definitely possible to write better shells. It's not POSIX though and there will always lie the problem. You might build a better shell but few will use it