You explode lists manually into items when calling commands on a variable list of arguments instead of “quoting variables” to prevent them from exploding.
Who came up with the bullshit idea that exploding strings into words is such a common use case that this footgun is preferable to have an “explode lists” syntax?
Errors. No more set -euo pipefail; shopt -s lastpipe to beat some semblance of sanity into bash
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Types.
You explode lists manually into items when calling commands on a variable list of arguments instead of “quoting variables” to prevent them from exploding.
Who came up with the bullshit idea that exploding strings into words is such a common use case that this footgun is preferable to have an “explode lists” syntax?
Errors. No more
set -euo pipefail; shopt -s lastpipeto beat some semblance of sanity into bash