A cat walks into a terminal. The terminal says, meow. The cat replies, that's not valid bash syntax. And that’s how we debug our shell scripts.

$ echo "Debugging is 90% confusion"\nDebugging is 90% confusion\n$ # The other 10% is more confusion

But that’s what makes it fun. Every error message is a story. Every stack trace is a puzzle. And every four-day-old debug statement that’s still in production? That’s just character building.

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