Cursor Rules for Bash: 6 Rules That Stop AI From Generating Broken Shell Scripts

Cursor Rules for Bash: 6 Rules That Stop AI From Generating Broken Shell Scripts Cursor generates Bash scripts quickly. The problem? Those scripts break silently - unquoted variables that split on spaces, missing error handling that lets failures cascade, hardcoded paths that only work on your machine, and cd commands that leave you in the wrong directory when something fails. Shell scripts run in production. They deploy your code, rotate your secrets, process your data, and manage your infrastructure. A broken script doesn't give you a red squiggly line - it gives you a 3am pager alert.