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Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck

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ShellCheck is a static analysis tool that points out common problems and pitfalls in shell scripts.

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Software Engineering Tools & Productivity 2020

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Feb 9, 2020	Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck by r4um	307	46

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