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That is what you get when people reinvent the wheel and lifetimes/ scopes are implicit. Docker could've used something like JSON5 [0] for their configuration format to make the lifetimes explicit. Another time when easy won over simple. [1]
[0] https://json5.org/
I wish we would rather get rid of Dockerfile in favor of something like buildah does:
https://github.com/containers/buildah/blob/main/examples/lig...
Since Dockerfile is a rather limited and (IMHO) poorly executed re-implementation of a shell script, why not rather use shell directly? Not even bash with coreutils is necessary: even posix sh with busybox can do far more than Dockerfile, and you can use something else (like Python) and take it very far indeed.
That's why I plan on migrating all my shell scripts to Golang programs f.ex. using https://github.com/bitfield/script -- it already has a number of simulations of shell commands and I'd contribute others if I had the time.
sh / bash / zsh scripts are just fragile and that's the inconvenient truth. People who devised the shell interpreters had good intentions but ultimately their creations grew to a scope 1000x bigger than they intended, hence all the "do X but if Y flag is set then do Z... unless flag A is also set in which case do Y and part of Z".
It's horrendous and I seriously don't get what's so difficult in just coding these scripts in a programming language that provides single statically linked binaries (like Golang) and just distribute it with your images -- or run them in CI/CD and have init containers and never include them in the images in the first place.
Inertia, of course. But I'll be actively working against it until I retire.