Comment by anal_reactor

It's a bandaid on a wider problem: the design of Unix shell is bonkers and the whole thing should be deleted. Why? Because I haven't seen any other tool ever have so many pitfalls. Take n random languages and m random developers and tell them to loop over a string array and print its contents, and count how many correct programs you get on average per language. There will be easy languages, then difficult languages, then a huge gap, then Unix shell because in your random sample you managed to get one guy who has PhD in bash.