ShellCheck 0.11.0

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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