Not exactly the same issue, but this general category of silliness is why I use Zsh for most of my scripts, instead of Bash or "Posix" Sh, whenever I can get aw

Not exactly the same issue, but this general category of silliness is why I use Zsh for most of my scripts, instead of Bash or "Posix" Sh, whenever I can get away with it. The programmer experience in Zsh is much better than Bash around anything related to parameter expansion, quoting, and arrays, while still more or less using the same idioms and syntax. In addition, the Zsh equivalent of the Bash "strict mode" is a bit stricter. Here's mine: emulate zsh setopt \ err_exit \ pipe_fail \ warn_create_global \ warn_nested_var \ no_unset https://git.sr.ht/~wintershadows/dotfiles/tree/master/item/lib/zsh/strict-mode.zsh https://git.sr.ht/~wintershadows/dotfiles/tree/master/item/l...