Comment by malux85

The widwit answer: "Dont do X" (and nothing more)

The enlightened answer "You should use A, B or C for these reasons"

Even though bash is installed on many systems, I try to encourage people to use better designed shells that have less of these footguns :

Fish (https://fishshell.com/): No implicit word splitting : spaces in variables won't unexpectedly become separate arguments.

Zsh (I use this: https://ohmyz.sh/): Arrays start at 1 by default, but crucially, unquoted variables don't implicitly split into multiple arguments.

Nushell (https://www.nushell.sh/): Passes structured tables and records between commands : avoids fragile parsing of text with awk/grep.