Issues

• Shellcheck does not issue unused variable error when local variable shadows global

  koalaman/shellcheck#3543 · Filter by author dhouck opened on Sep 26, 2026

• Feature request: warning when globstar seems to be used but not set

  koalaman/shellcheck#3542 · Filter by author dhouck opened on Sep 25, 2026

• stack resolver is outdated

  koalaman/shellcheck#3539 · Filter by author e-kwsm opened on Sep 21, 2026

• SC2218 false positives when built against fgl < 5.8.1.0, which the declared bound permits

  koalaman/shellcheck#3537 · Filter by author etal opened on Sep 18, 2026
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• Suggestion: warn when a quoted heredoc references a variable of the enclosing script (the mirror image of SC2087)

  koalaman/shellcheck#3534 · Filter by author konard opened on Sep 6, 2026

• Suggestion to prune stale issues (1100+ open as of Autumn 2026)

  koalaman/shellcheck#3529 · Filter by author forthrin opened on Aug 23, 2026

• SC2118 is false

  koalaman/shellcheck#3524 · Filter by author tommyrot opened on Aug 18, 2026
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• [feature] shell completions for shellcheck --<TAB>

  koalaman/shellcheck#3523 · Filter by author Freed-Wu opened on Aug 18, 2026

• No warning when a command substitution clobbers $? in the same command

  koalaman/shellcheck#3522 · Filter by author jalcim opened on Aug 16, 2026
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• Assigning and retrieving integers via indirection inside arithmetic expansion

  koalaman/shellcheck#3515 · Filter by author friendly-bits opened on Aug 9, 2026
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• SC2218 false positive: re-source-ing a library file in a later @test block flags an earlier, correctly-defined function call as "only defined later"

  koalaman/shellcheck#3509 · Filter by author jakub-bochenski opened on Jul 31, 2026

• perhaps SC2140 should be suppressed for "\"" case

  koalaman/shellcheck#3507 · Filter by author John-L opened on Jul 29, 2026
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• should shellcheck warn *potential* SIGPIPE?

  koalaman/shellcheck#3506 · Filter by author e-kwsm opened on Jul 29, 2026

• chaining with && or || can lead to unexpected outcomes

  koalaman/shellcheck#3503 · Filter by author girst opened on Jul 27, 2026

• Digital signatures for precompiled binaries in the release artifacts

  koalaman/shellcheck#3501 · Filter by author taylor-madeak opened on Jul 24, 2026

• commas in arithmetic expansions are non-POSIX

  koalaman/shellcheck#3499 · Filter by author Rudxain opened on Jul 22, 2026

• SC2320: false negative for printf

  koalaman/shellcheck#3490 · Filter by author e-kwsm opened on Jun 24, 2026
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• SC2319: rule triggered even though using variable assignment

  koalaman/shellcheck#3486 · Filter by author gblues opened on Jun 12, 2026
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• Requesto for new lint: Recommend uname -n in place of a plain hostname

  koalaman/shellcheck#3483 · Filter by author slatian opened on Jun 9, 2026

• "Non-exhaustive patterns in function checkCmd" error

  koalaman/shellcheck#3479 · Filter by author antoniszymanski opened on Jun 6, 2026
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• Unexpected shellcheck parse error for code that runs correctly and looks correct

  koalaman/shellcheck#3475 · Filter by author xsdg opened on May 23, 2026
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• Make SC1075 a warning

  koalaman/shellcheck#3472 · Filter by author GfEW opened on May 17, 2026

• Add immutable release

  koalaman/shellcheck#3469 · Filter by author silverwind opened on May 13, 2026

• SC3028 hostname utility is not in POSIX at all

  koalaman/shellcheck#3468 · Filter by author polluks opened on May 9, 2026
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• compgen -V array not considered assigned

  koalaman/shellcheck#3466 · Filter by author rieje opened on Apr 29, 2026
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