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Re:Minimal safe Bash script template by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:51AM (#25429797)
This is my feeling, too. Race conditions, misunderstanding globbing, whitespace in path names - these are the main sources of errors in Bash scripts I come by.
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Re:Minimal safe Bash script template by Silhouette on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:37AM (#25430147)
whitespace in path names

And more generally, the arcane rules for quoting, substitutions, parameter parsing, running other processes, and how all of these interact.

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