Package: devscripts
Version: 2.26.9
Severity: minor
checkbashisms reports "printf %q" for text inside a multi-line
single-quoted argument — a Go text/template passed to
podman inspect --format — where printf is a Go template function,
not a shell command:
#!/bin/sh
eval "$(${container_manager} inspect --type container --format \
'container_status={{.State.Status}};
unshare_groups={{ index .Config.Labels "distrobox.unshare_groups" }};
{{range .Config.Env}}{{if and (ge (len .) 5) (eq (slice . 0 5)
"PATH=")}}container_path={{slice . 5 | printf "%q"}}{{end}}{{end}}' \
"${container_name}")"
Actual output (checkbashisms 2.26.9, exit 1):
possible bashism in test.sh line 6 (printf %q):
{{range .Config.Env}}{{if and (ge (len .) 5) (eq (slice . 0 5)
"PATH=")}}container_path={{slice . 5 | printf "%q"}}{{end}}{{end}}' \
Expected: no output. The template is one single-quoted argument;
its lines are data for podman. The checker's multi-line
quoted-block tracking loses the block before the last line (a
double-quoted string on an interior line desynchronises it), so
that line is checked as shell text. Reduced from the shipped
distrobox-enter (distrobox 1.8.2.5), which draws this hit at
line 657; the same file's other data-only hits are filed
separately.
Disclosure, encouraged by GR 2026-002: this report was drafted with
AI assistance; the reproducer was verified by me against
checkbashisms 2.26.9.
