Philippe Gaultier 3/4/2026

A silly shell pitfall

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The article details a common shell scripting pitfall where a function named 'swift' inadvertently causes infinite recursion when trying to call the 'swift' CLI command. It explains the issue, provides a fix using 'exec', and compares how languages like Rust and Go handle similar recursion warnings. The author advises using proper programming languages with linters for complex scripts.

A silly shell pitfall

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