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Will it be bad to use RegEx like this for URLs?
1 project | /r/regex | 4 Jun 2022

Well, if it's text, you can use a program like urlscan which extracts URLs from input text and allows you to launch them in your browser of choice.
Bugs in Hello World
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2022

You all joke that this doesn’t happen in practice, but this literally just happened to me and it took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on.
The article lists Bash as not suffering from the bug, but it actually does if you `set -e`.
I use a bash script as my BROWSER which calls another bash script to launch or communicate with my browser that I run inside a container. The script that my BROWSER script calls has some debug output that it prints to stderr.
I use mutt as my email client and urlscan [0] to open URLs inside emails. Urlscan looks at my BROWSER environment variable and thus calls my script to open whatever URL I target. Some time recently, the urlscan author improved the UX by hiding stderr so that it wouldn’t pollute the view, and so attempted to pipe it to `/dev/null`. I guess their original code to do this wasn’t quite correct and it ended up closing the child processes’ stderr.*
I generally use `set -e` because I want my scripts to fail if any command fails (I consider that after a an unhandled failure the scripts behavior is undefined, some other people disagree and say you should never use `set -e` outside of development, but I digress). My BROWSER scripts are no exception.
While my scripts handle non-zero returns for most things that can go wrong, I never considered that writing log messages to stdout or stderr might fail. But it did, and for a few weeks I wasn’t able to use urlscan to open links. I was too lazy to figure out what was wrong, and when I did it took me a while because I looked into every possibility except this one.
Luckily this wasn’t a production app. But I know now it could just as feasibly happen in production, too.
I opened an issue[1] and it was fixed very quickly. I love open source!
*No disrespect to urlscan, it’s an awesome tool and bugs happen to all of us!
[0]: https://github.com/firecat53/urlscan