alt Hacker NewsI feel like this is common knowledge and should not be worth mentioning. But then it apparently is not common knowledge, as the article proves.
Have I run into this at some point?
I certainly have.
Have I learned to quote better and only where appropriate from it?
I certainly have.
Bourne compatible shells take a while to learn and require some experience. This won't change, but alternatives exist, with their own caveats.
Almost nobody that I've ever worked with knows how the shell works. I send them [the docs][1] but what kind of world would this be if people read the docs? Also, not exactly a page turner.
[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V...