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Things which seem odd, explained.

Weird false --help invocations which are never called

Talking about these:

_isDarwin() {
    true || isDarwin --help
    # __IDENTICAL__ usageDocument 1
    usageDocument "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" "${FUNCNAME[0]#_}" "$@"
}

The --help line always evaluates to true and the second half of the statement NEVER runs. Why?

The code linter in our development environment will flag these as never being called with parameters in a script (which is likely true) but the function itself actually implements argument handling; and so the the Bash shell checking script thinks it's error SC2120, "foo references arguments, but none are ever passed". Adding this adds a call to the function and eliminates the error.

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