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ShellCheck is a GPLv3 tool that gives warnings and suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts

What's new in 0.11.0

This release is dedicated to Satisfactory, even though my giant 3D ball of rat's nest conveyor belt spaghetti is anything but. CHANGELOG v0.11.0 - 2025-08-03 Added - SC2327/SC2328: Warn about capturing the output of redirected commands. - SC2329: Warn when (non-escaping) functions are never invoked. - SC2330: Warn about unsupported glob matches with [[ .. ]] in BusyBox. - SC2331: Suggest using standard -e instead of unary -a in tests. - SC2332: Warn about [ ! -o opt ] being unconditionally true in Bash. - SC3062: Warn about bashism [ -o opt ]. - Optional avoid-negated-conditions: suggest replacing [ ! a -eq b ] with [ a -ne b ], and similar for -ge/-lt/=/!=/etc (SC2335). - Precompiled binaries for Linux riscv64 (linux.riscv64) Changed - SC2002 about Useless Use Of Cat is now disabled by default. It can be re-enabled with --enable=useless-use-of-cat or equivalent directive. - SC2236/SC2237 about replacing [ ! -n .. ] with [ -z ] and vice versa is now optional under avoid-negated-conditions. - SC2015 about A && B || C no longer triggers when B is a test command. - SC3012: Do not warn about \< and \> in test/[] as specified in POSIX.1-2024 - Diff output now uses / as path separator on Windows Fixed - SC2218 about function use-before-define is now more accurate. - SC2317 about unreachable commands is now less spammy for nested ones. - SC2292, optional suggestion for [[ ]], now triggers for Busybox. - Updates for Bash 5.3, including ${| cmd; } and source -p Removed - SC3013: removed since the operators -ot/-nt/-ef are specified in POSIX.1-2024

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