ShellCheck VS PowerShell

ShellCheck is a static analysis tool that detects bugs and issues in shell scripts.

I never thought of the idea of printing out a stack trace and a logging function is an example of such a good idea that is so obvious that I didn't think of it :-)

I use -e sometimes but I really dislike scripts that rely on it for all error handling instead of handling errors and logging them.

https://www.shellcheck.net/

^^ this tool has proven very useful for avoiding some of the most silly mistakes and making my scripts better. If you're maintaining scripts with other people then it is a great way of getting people to fix things without directly criticising them.

Unfortunately, this did mean that configuration began to sprawl. At this point, I had configurations not just for Vite (shared with Vitest) and tsc, but also for Prettier, ESLint and even ShellCheck. Many of these files had shared settings that needed to match each other. This was somewhat manageable, until Vite was also in the mix.

Shellcheck is another useful one (linter for shell scripts)

https://www.shellcheck.net/

There's now an issue for it https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/3088

ShellCheck

It's been so long since I used it seriously I couldn't tell you.

There's over 1000 open issues on the GitHub repo, and over 100 contain "false positive". I recognize several of these at first glance.

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...

Reminder of the handy ShellCheck:

* https://www.shellcheck.net

Even if you don't follow or agree with its advice, it can be a handy and quick second opinion / sanity check.

If you're only occasionally writing shell scripts, Amber may not be a priority for you. In such cases, linting tools like ShellCheck could be more beneficial. However, if you find yourself frequently writing shell scripts, to the point where you're considering Python or Ruby for better re-usability, then Amber is definitely worth your attention.

"can" is doing some heavy lifting there, especially based on my experience with VSCodium (which by definition is forced to work within Microsoft's opinion of build systems)

Anyway, uh-huh:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github... -> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/v7.5.1/.github...

As a frame of reference, to build bash one only needs /bin/sh not a pre-built copy of bash itself https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/configure?h=...

I'll take this moment to point out that the PowerShell feels like a modern shell and is open source https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (MIT license). If you want something more modern give it a try. Native support for JSON and XML and parallel streams.

That said, I'm glad to see another major release of Fish because it's for having option that we get evolution.

Download: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.4.5/PowerShell-7.4.5-win-x64.msi

PowerShell is so alien to an experienced bash/zsh/etc. user that it's an entirely different language not any kind of drop-in replacement. Its designers also refuse to add simple things to make the switch any easier (e.g. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3316).

Not necessarily:

1. UNIX-compatibility aliases like "ls -> Get-ChildItem" and "cat -> Get-Content" are not defined in PowerShell on Linux or macOS. For a complete list of these, see the PowerShell source code[1] (look for "#if !UNIX").

2. A number of aliases from PowerShell ≤ 5.1 were removed in PowerShell Core (≥ 6.0), including the particularly annoying "curl -> Invoke-WebRequest" (conflicts with curl.exe) and "sc -> Set-Content" (conflicts with sc.exe).

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/8ea1598964590b...

and do a no-install copy-paste deployment of powershell 7 and modules. (I'm not saying you should do this instead of using Lua, just that you can).

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases