Fix shell in optimize-images script #88
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I tried to run this script with the hashbang as it was and, at the very least in Ubuntu 24.04,
sh
resolves todash
, which causes the script to run without processing any images, creating just theimages-optimized
file, with no errors or output. Changing it to usebash
made it work correctly.My best guess is in the
if [ "$FILE" -nt "$DATA"/images-optimized ]
check, which has a very subtle but important difference between bash and dash:bash:
dash:
Since
images-optimized
doesn't exist on the first run, that condition fails silently until the end of the first run in dash, and subsequent runs won't process old images, only new ones.Regardless, changing this to bash should avoid more surprises like this in the future.
Alternatively, if you wish to keep it using dash, then it could be edited to take into account those differences, but the hashbang should probably be changed to specify dash, since sh can vary: