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Reflect the fact that this is a "Lexer for various shells" as described in the top comment, and not just a Lexer for Bash. Bash is not shell, it is definitely a more advanced language, with array support, better loops, the `function` keyword, the `select` command, file slurping, more expansions, more conditionals, etc. Assuming that any shell script would be a "Bash script" is error inducing at best, novices might try, not knowing better, to introduce so called bashisms in a POSIX shell script, and even seasoned developers might be mislead and assume the wrong thing. Calling it a "Shell" script costs nothing, is correct, and will prevent any such issues.
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Reflect the fact that this is a "Lexer for various shells" as described in the top comment, and not just a Lexer for Bash.
Bash is not just shell, it is definitely a more advanced language, with array support, better loops, the
functionkeyword, theselectcommand, file slurping, more expansions, more conditionals, etc.Assuming that any shell script would be a "Bash script" is error inducing at best, novices might try, not knowing better, to introduce so called bashisms in a POSIX shell script, and even seasoned developers might be mislead and assume the wrong thing.
Calling it a "Shell" script costs nothing, is correct, and will prevent any such issues.
Note: I left the references to "Bash" in function names and such, as the functionality is independent of those, but to be perfectly correct, those should also be corrected.