Shell Dep Standards Jun 2026

No host dependencies except docker itself.

Tooling like deps.sh (conceptual) could become the package.json of shell scripting. shell dep standards

| Utility | Safe version syntax | Dangerous pattern | |---------|---------------------|-------------------| | grep | >=2.5 (avoid -P ) | grep -P (GNU-only) | | sed | sed -E (both GNU and BSD) vs sed -r (GNU) | sed -i '' (BSD) vs sed -i'' (GNU) | | awk | awk 'print $1' (POSIX) | gawk extensions ( gensub , asort ) | | find | find . -name "*.sh" -exec ... + | find . -printf (GNU) | No host dependencies except docker itself