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> There are many reasons why it is to be avoided. For me the deal breaker was that one time I spent 2h debugging a script only to find out there was an extra space character that made the whole thing break silently.

This sounds like using `a = b` instead of `a=b`, something you learn in an introductory Bash tutorial. It's not a good argument to say "I didn't learn Bash and it cost me 2 hours, therefore I should continue to not learn Bash."



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