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v0.8.0 - 2021-11-06

Added

  • disable=all now conveniently disables all warnings
  • external-sources=true directive can be added to .shellcheckrc to make shellcheck behave as if -x was specified.
  • Optional check-extra-masked-returns for pointing out commands with suppressed exit codes (SC2312).
  • Optional require-double-brackets for recommending [[ ]] (SC2292).
  • SC2286-SC2288: Warn when command name ends in a symbol like /.)'"
  • SC2289: Warn when command name contains tabs or linefeeds
  • SC2291: Warn about repeated unquoted spaces between words in echo
  • SC2292: Suggest [[ over [ in Bash/Ksh scripts (optional)
  • SC2293/SC2294: Warn when calling eval with arrays
  • SC2295: Warn about "${x#$y}" treating $y as a pattern when not quoted
  • SC2296-SC2301: Improved warnings for bad parameter expansions
  • SC2302/SC2303: Warn about loops over array values when using them as keys
  • SC2304-SC2306: Warn about unquoted globs in expr arguments
  • SC2307: Warn about insufficient number of arguments to expr
  • SC2308: Suggest other approaches for non-standard expr extensions
  • SC2313: Warn about read with unquoted, array indexed variable

Fixed

  • SC2102 about repetitions in ranges no longer triggers on [[ -v arr[xx] ]]
  • SC2155 now recognizes typeset and local read-only declare statements
  • SC2181 now tries to avoid triggering for error handling functions
  • SC2290: Warn about misused = in declare & co, which were not caught by SC2270+
  • The flag --color=auto no longer outputs color when TERM is "dumb" or unset

Changed

  • SC2048: Warning about $* now also applies to ${array[*]}
  • SC2181 now only triggers on single condition tests like [ $? = 0 ].
  • Quote warnings are now emitted for declaration utilities in sh
  • Leading _ can now be used to suppress warnings about unused variables
  • TTY output now includes warning level in text as well as color

Removed

  • SC1004: Literal backslash+linefeed in '' was found to be usually correct

v0.7.2 - 2021-04-19

Added

  • disable directives can now be a range, e.g. disable=SC3000-SC4000
  • SC1143: Warn about line continuations in comments
  • SC2259/SC2260: Warn when redirections override pipes
  • SC2261: Warn about multiple competing redirections
  • SC2262/SC2263: Warn about aliases declared and used in the same parsing unit
  • SC2264: Warn about wrapper functions that blatantly recurse
  • SC2265/SC2266: Warn when using & or | with test statements
  • SC2267: Warn when using xargs -i instead of -I
  • SC2268: Warn about unnecessary x-comparisons like [ x$var = xval ]

Fixed

  • SC1072/SC1073 now respond to disable annotations, though ignoring parse errors is still purely cosmetic and does not allow ShellCheck to continue.
  • Improved error reporting for trailing tokens after ]/]] and compound commands
  • #!/usr/bin/env -S shell is now handled correctly
  • Here docs with \r are now parsed correctly and give better warnings

Changed

  • Assignments are now parsed to spec, without leniency for leading $ or spaces
  • POSIX/dash unsupported feature warnings now have individual SC3xxx codes
  • SC1090: A leading $x/ or $(x)/ is now treated as ./ when locating files
  • SC2154: Variables appearing in -z/-n tests are no longer considered unassigned
  • SC2270-SC2285: Improved warnings about misused =, e.g. ${var}=42

v0.7.1 - 2020-04-04

Fixed

  • -f diff no longer claims that it found more issues when it didn't
  • Known empty variables now correctly trigger SC2086
  • ShellCheck should now be compatible with Cabal 3
  • SC2154 and all command-specific checks now trigger for builtins called with builtin

Added

  • SC1136: Warn about unexpected characters after ]/]]
  • SC2254: Suggest quoting expansions in case statements
  • SC2255: Suggest using $((..)) in [ 2*3 -eq 6 ]
  • SC2256: Warn about translated strings that are known variables
  • SC2257: Warn about arithmetic mutation in redirections
  • SC2258: Warn about trailing commas in for loop elements

Changed

  • SC2230: 'command -v' suggestion is now off by default (-i deprecate-which)
  • SC1081: Keywords are now correctly parsed case sensitively, with a warning

v0.7.0 - 2019-07-28

Added

  • Precompiled binaries for macOS and Linux aarch64
  • Preliminary support for fix suggestions
  • New -f diff unified diff format for auto-fixes
  • Files containing Bats tests can now be checked
  • Directory wide directives can now be placed in a .shellcheckrc
  • Optional checks: Use --list-optional to show a list of tests, Enable with -o flags or enable=name directives
  • Source paths: Use -P dir1:dir2 or a source-path=dir1 directive to specify search paths for sourced files.
  • json1 format like --format=json but treats tabs as single characters
  • Recognize FLAGS variables created by the shflags library.
  • Site-specific changes can now be made in Custom.hs for ease of patching
  • SC2154: Also warn about unassigned uppercase variables (optional)
  • SC2252: Warn about [ $a != x ] || [ $a != y ], similar to SC2055
  • SC2251: Inform about ineffectual ! in front of commands
  • SC2250: Warn about variable references without braces (optional)
  • SC2249: Warn about case with missing default case (optional)
  • SC2248: Warn about unquoted variables without special chars (optional)
  • SC2247: Warn about $"(cmd)" and $"{var}"
  • SC2246: Warn if a shebang's interpreter ends with /
  • SC2245: Warn that Ksh ignores all but the first glob result in [
  • SC2243/SC2244: Suggest using explicit -n for [ $foo ] (optional)
  • SC1135: Suggest not ending double quotes just to make $ literal

Changed

  • If a directive or shebang is not specified, a .bash/.bats/.dash/.ksh extension will be used to infer the shell type when present.
  • Disabling SC2120 on a function now disables SC2119 on call sites

Fixed

  • SC2183 no longer warns about missing printf args for %()T

v0.6.0 - 2018-12-02

Added

  • Command line option --severity/-S for filtering by minimum severity
  • Command line option --wiki-link-count/-W for showing wiki links
  • SC2152/SC2151: Warn about bad exit values like 1234 and "foo"
  • SC2236/SC2237: Suggest -n/-z instead of ! -z/-n
  • SC2238: Warn when redirecting to a known command name, e.g. ls > rm
  • SC2239: Warn if the shebang is not an absolute path, e.g. #!bin/sh
  • SC2240: Warn when passing additional arguments to dot (.) in sh/dash
  • SC1133: Better diagnostics when starting a line with |/||/&&

Changed

  • Most warnings now have useful end positions
  • SC1117 about unknown double-quoted escape sequences has been retired

Fixed

  • SC2021 no longer triggers for equivalence classes like [=e=]
  • SC2221/SC2222 no longer mistriggers on fall-through case branches
  • SC2081 about glob matches in [ .. ] now also triggers for !=
  • SC2086 no longer warns about spaces in $#
  • SC2164 no longer suggests subshells for cd ..; cmd; cd ..
  • read -a is now correctly considered an array assignment
  • SC2039 no longer warns about LINENO now that it's POSIX

v0.5.0 - 2018-05-31

Added

  • SC2233/SC2234/SC2235: Suggest removing or replacing (..) around tests
  • SC2232: Warn about invalid arguments to sudo
  • SC2231: Suggest quoting expansions in for loop globs
  • SC2229: Warn about 'read $var'
  • SC2227: Warn about redirections in the middle of 'find' commands
  • SC2224/SC2225/SC2226: Warn when using mv/cp/ln without a destination
  • SC2223: Quote warning specific to : ${var=value}
  • SC1131: Warn when using elseif or elsif
  • SC1128: Warn about blanks/comments before shebang
  • SC1127: Warn about C-style comments

Fixed

  • Annotations intended for a command's here documents now work
  • Escaped characters inside groups in =~ regexes now parse
  • Associative arrays are now respected in arithmetic contexts
  • SC1087 about $var[@] now correctly triggers on any index
  • Bad expansions in here documents are no longer ignored
  • FD move operations like {fd}>1- now parse correctly

Changed

  • Here docs are now terminated as per spec, rather than by presumed intent
  • SC1073: 'else if' is now parsed correctly and not like 'elif'
  • SC2163: 'export $name' can now be silenced with 'export ${name?}'
  • SC2183: Now warns when printf arg count is not a multiple of format count

v0.4.7 - 2017-12-08

Added

  • Statically linked binaries for Linux and Windows (see README.md)!
  • -a flag to also include warnings in sourced files
  • SC2221/SC2222: Warn about overridden case branches
  • SC2220: Warn about unhandled error cases in getopt loops
  • SC2218: Warn when using functions before they're defined
  • SC2216/SC2217: Warn when piping/redirecting to mv/cp and other non-readers
  • SC2215: Warn about commands starting with leading dash
  • SC2214: Warn about superfluous getopt flags
  • SC2213: Warn about unhandled getopt flags
  • SC2212: Suggest false over [ ]
  • SC2211: Warn when using a glob as a command name
  • SC2210: Warn when redirecting to an integer, e.g. foo 1>2
  • SC2206/SC2207: Suggest alternatives when using word splitting in arrays
  • SC1117: Warn about double quoted, undefined backslash sequences
  • SC1113/SC1114/SC1115: Recognized more malformed shebangs

Fixed

  • [ -v foo ] no longer warns if foo is undefined
  • SC2037 is now suppressed by quotes, e.g. PAGER="cat" man foo
  • Ksh nested array declarations now parse correctly
  • Parameter Expansion without colons are now recognized, e.g. ${foo+bar}
  • The lastpipe option is now respected with regard to subshell warnings
  • \( is now respected for grouping in [
  • Leading \ is now ignored for commands, to allow alias suppression
  • Comments are now allowed after directives to e.g. explain 'disable'

v0.4.6 - 2017-03-26

Added

  • SC2204/SC2205: Warn about ( -z foo ) and ( foo -eq bar )
  • SC2200/SC2201: Warn about brace expansion in [/[[
  • SC2198/SC2199: Warn about arrays in [/[[
  • SC2196/SC2197: Warn about deprecated egrep/fgrep
  • SC2195: Warn about unmatchable case branches
  • SC2194: Warn about constant 'case' statements
  • SC2193: Warn about [[ file.png == *.mp3 ]] and other unmatchables
  • SC2188/SC2189: Warn about redirections without commands
  • SC2186: Warn about deprecated tempfile
  • SC1109: Warn when finding &/>/< unquoted
  • SC1108: Warn about missing spaces in [ var= foo ]

Changed

  • All files are now read as UTF-8 with lenient latin1 fallback, ignoring locale
  • Unicode quotes are no longer considered syntactic quotes
  • ash scripts will now be checked as dash with a warning

Fixed

  • -c no longer suggested when using grep -o | wc
  • Comments and whitespace are now allowed before filewide directives
  • Here doc delimiters with esoteric quoting like foo"" are now handled
  • SC2095 about ssh in while read loops is now suppressed when using -n
  • %(%Y%M%D)T now recognized as a single formatter in printf checks
  • grep -F now suppresses regex related suggestions
  • Command name checks now recognize busybox applet names

v0.4.5 - 2016-10-21

Added

  • A Docker build (thanks, kpankonen!)
  • SC2185: Suggest explicitly adding path for find
  • SC2184: Warn about unsetting globs (e.g. unset foo[1])
  • SC2183: Warn about printf with more formatters than variables
  • SC2182: Warn about ignored arguments with printf
  • SC2181: Suggest using command directly instead of if [ $? -eq 0 ]
  • SC1106: Warn when using test operators in (( 1 -eq 2 ))

Changed

  • Unrecognized directives now causes a warning rather than parse failure.

Fixed

  • Indices in associative arrays are now parsed correctly
  • Missing shebang warning squashed when specifying with a directive
  • Ksh multidimensional arrays are now supported
  • Variables in substring ${a:x:y} expansions now count as referenced
  • SC1102 now also handles ambiguous $((
  • Using $(seq ..) will no longer suggest quoting
  • SC2148 (missing shebang) is now suppressed when using shell directives
  • [ a '>' b ] is now recognized as being correctly escaped

v0.4.4 - 2016-05-15

Added

  • Haskell Stack support (thanks, Arguggi!)
  • SC2179/SC2178: Warn when assigning/appending strings to arrays
  • SC1102: Warn about ambiguous $(((
  • SC1101: Warn when \ linebreaks have trailing spaces

Changed

  • Directives directly after the shebang now apply to the entire file

Fixed

  • {$i..10} is now flagged similar to {1..$i}

v0.4.3 - 2016-01-13

Fixed

  • Build now works on GHC 7.6.3 as found on Debian Stable/Ubuntu LTS

v0.4.2 - 2016-01-09

Added

  • First class support for the dash shell
  • The --color flag similar to ls/grep's (thanks, haguenau!)
  • SC2174: Warn about unexpected behavior of mkdir -pm (thanks, eatnumber1!)
  • SC2172: Warn about non-portable use of signal numbers in trap
  • SC2171: Warn about ]] without leading [[
  • SC2168: Warn about local outside functions

Fixed

  • Warnings about unchecked cd will no longer trigger with set -e
  • [ a -nt/-ot/-ef b ] no longer warns about being constant
  • Quoted test operators like [ foo "<" bar ] now parse
  • Escaped quotes in backticks now parse correctly

v0.4.1 - 2015-09-05

Fixed

  • Added missing files to Cabal, fixing the build

v0.4.0 - 2015-09-05

Added

  • Support for following sourced files
  • Support for setting default flags in SHELLCHECK_OPTS
  • An --external-sources flag for following arbitrary sourced files
  • A source directive to override the filename to source
  • SC2166: Suggest using [ p ] && [ q ] over [ p -a q ]
  • SC2165: Warn when nested for loops use the same variable name
  • SC2164: Warn when using cd without checking that it succeeds
  • SC2163: Warn about export $var
  • SC2162: Warn when using read without -r
  • SC2157: Warn about [ "$var " ] and similar never-empty string matches

Fixed

  • cat -vnE file and similar will no longer flag as UUOC
  • Nested trinary operators in (( )) now parse correctly
  • Ksh ${ ..; } command expansions now parse

v0.3.8 - 2015-06-20

Changed

  • ShellCheck's license has changed from AGPLv3 to GPLv3.

Added

  • SC2156: Warn about injecting filenames in find -exec sh -c "{}" \;

Fixed

  • Variables and command substitutions in brace expansions are now parsed
  • ANSI colors are now disabled on Windows
  • Empty scripts now parse

v0.3.7 - 2015-04-16

Fixed

  • Build now works on GHC 7.10
  • Use regex-tdfa over regex-compat since the latter crashes on OS X.

v0.3.6 - 2015-03-28

Added

  • SC2155: Warn about masked return values in export foo=$(exit 1)
  • SC2154: Warn when a lowercase variable is referenced but not assigned
  • SC2152/SC2151: Warn about bad return values like 1234 and "foo"
  • SC2150: Warn about find -exec "shell command" \;

Fixed

  • coproc is now supported
  • Trinary operator now recognized in ((..))

Removed

  • Zsh support has been removed

v0.3.5 - 2014-11-09

Added

  • SC2148: Warn when not including a shebang
  • SC2147: Warn about literal ~ in PATH
  • SC1086: Warn about $ in for loop variables, e.g. for $i in ..
  • SC1084: Warn when the shebang uses !# instead of #!

Fixed

  • Empty and comment-only backtick expansions now parse
  • Variables used in PS1/PROMPT_COMMAND/trap now count as referenced
  • ShellCheck now skips unreadable files and directories
  • -f gcc on empty files no longer crashes
  • Variables in $".." are now considered quoted
  • Warnings about expansions in single quotes now include backticks

v0.3.4 - 2014-07-08

Added

  • SC2146: Warn about precedence when combining find -o with actions
  • SC2145: Warn when concatenating arrays and strings

Fixed

  • Case statements now support ;& and ;;&
  • Indices in array declarations now parse correctly
  • let expressions now parsed as arithmetic expressions
  • Escaping is now respected in here documents

Changed

  • Completely drop Makefile in favor of Cabal (thanks rodrigosetti!)

v0.3.3 - 2014-05-29

Added

  • SC2144: Warn when using globs in [/[[
  • SC2143: Suggesting using grep -q over [ "$(.. | grep)" ]
  • SC2142: Warn when referencing positional parameters in aliases
  • SC2141: Warn about suspicious IFS assignments like IFS="\n"
  • SC2140: Warn about bad embedded quotes like echo "var="value""
  • SC2130: Warn when using -eq on strings
  • SC2139: Warn about define time expansions in alias definitions
  • SC2129: Suggest command grouping over a >> log; b >> log; c >> log
  • SC2128: Warn when expanding arrays without an index
  • SC2126: Suggest grep -c over grep|wc
  • SC2123: Warn about accidentally overriding $PATH, e.g. PATH=/my/dir
  • SC1083: Warn about literal {/} outside of quotes
  • SC1082: Warn about UTF-8 BOMs

Fixed

  • SC2051 no longer triggers for {1,$n}, only {1..$n}
  • Improved detection of single quoted sed variables, e.g. sed '$s///'
  • Stop warning about single quoted variables in PS1 and similar
  • Support for Zsh short form loops, =(..)

Removed

  • SC1000 about unescaped lonely $, e.g. grep "^foo$"

v0.3.2 - 2014-03-22

Added

  • SC2121: Warn about trying to set variables, e.g. set var = value
  • SC2120/SC2119: Warn when a function uses $1.. if none are ever passed
  • SC2117: Warn when using su in interactive mode, e.g. su foo; whoami
  • SC2116: Detect useless use of echo, e.g. for i in $(echo $var)
  • SC2115/SC2114: Detect some catastrophic rm -r "$empty/" mistakes
  • SC1081: Warn when capitalizing keywords like While
  • SC1077: Warn when using acute accents instead of backticks

Fixed

  • Shells are now properly recognized in shebangs containing flags
  • Stop warning about math on decimals in ksh/zsh
  • Stop warning about decimal comparisons with =, e.g. [ $version = 1.2 ]
  • Parsing of |&
  • ${a[x]} not counting as a reference of x
  • (( x[0] )) not counting as a reference of x

v0.3.1 - 2014-02-03

Added

  • The -s flag to specify shell dialect
  • SC2105/SC2104: Warn about break/continue outside loops
  • SC1076: Detect invalid [/[[ arithmetic like [ 1 + 2 = 3 ]
  • SC1075: Suggest using elif over else if

Fixed

  • Don't warn when comma separating elements in brace expansions
  • Improved detection of single quoted sed variables, e.g. sed '$d'
  • Parsing of arithmetic for loops using {..} instead of do..done
  • Don't treat the last pipeline stage as a subshell in ksh/zsh

v0.3.0 - 2014-01-19

Added

  • A man page (thanks Dridi!)
  • GCC compatible error reporting (shellcheck -f gcc)
  • CheckStyle compatible XML error reporting (shellcheck -f checkstyle)
  • Error codes for each warning, e.g. SC1234
  • Allow disabling warnings with # shellcheck disable=SC1234
  • Allow disabling warnings with --exclude
  • SC2103: Suggest using subshells over cd foo; bar; cd ..
  • SC2102: Warn about duplicates in char ranges, e.g. [10-15]
  • SC2101: Warn about named classes not inside a char range, e.g. [:digit:]
  • SC2100/SC2099: Warn about bad math expressions like i=i+5
  • SC2098/SC2097: Warn about foo=bar echo $foo
  • SC2095: Warn when using ssh/ffmpeg in while read loops
  • Better warnings for missing here doc tokens

Fixed

  • Don't warn when single quoting variables with ssh/perl/eval
  • ${!var} is now counted as a variable reference

Removed

  • Suggestions about using parameter expansion over basename
  • The jsoncheck binary. Use shellcheck -f json instead.

v0.2.0 - 2013-10-27

Added

  • Suggest ./* instead of * when passing globs to commands
  • Suggest pgrep over ps | grep
  • Warn about unicode quotes
  • Warn about assigned but unused variables
  • Inform about client side expansion when using ssh

Fixed

  • CLI tool now uses exit codes and stderr canonically
  • Parsing of extglobs containing empty patterns
  • Parsing of bash style eval foo=(bar)
  • Parsing of expansions in here documents
  • Parsing of function names containing :+-
  • Don't warn about find|xargs when using -print0

v0.1.0 - 2013-07-23

Added

  • First release