sh Files

• The mvdan-sh JS package is discontinued in favor of sh-syntax - [#1145]
• cmd/shfmt
• Support the "simplify" and "minify" flags via EditorConfig - [#819]
• Do not allow --write to replace non-regular files - [#843]
• interp
• Add IsBuiltin to check if a command name is a shell built-in - [#1164]
• Add HandlerContext.Builtin to allow ExecHandlerFunc to call built-ins
• Initial support for $! and wait PID - [#221]
• Return non-fatal ExecHandlerFunc errors via the Runner.Run API
• Add HandlerContext.Pos to provide handlers with source positions
• Deprecate NewExitStatus and IsExitStatus in favor of ExitStatus
• Fix wait to always return the status of the last given job
• Copy all env vars for background subshells to avoid data races
• Support reading random numbers via $RANDOM and $SRANDOM
• Set $BASH_REMATCH when matching regular expressions via =~
• Support modifying local vars from the parent calling function
• expand
• Adjust which backslash sequences are expanded in here-docs - [#1138]
• Tweak tilde expansions to match Bash semantics
• pattern
• Remove the flawed and broken Braces mode; use syntax.SplitBraces instead
• Tweak ** to only act as "globstar" when alone as a path element - [#1149]
• Tweak * and ** to not match leading dots in basenames
• Add a NoGlobStar mode to match the POSIX semantics
• fileutil
• Treat all non-regular files as definitely not shell scripts - [#1089]

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Binaries built on go version go1.24.4 linux/amd64 with:

CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -X=main.version=v3.12.0"