{
 "id": "editing-a-running-bash-script-makes-the-interpreter",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Editing a running bash script makes the interpreter resume at a shifted byte offset, and a long chain silently restarts from the top",
 "symptom": "A chain script correctly ran all five of its jobs to completion over six hours and then, instead of printing its completion line, started job one again. Same PID throughout, systemd's NRestarts was 0, and the unit had never failed \u2014 so nothing had restarted it. The script itself had jumped backwards into its own loop.",
 "sw": [
  "bash",
  "systemd"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64",
  "debian-13"
 ],
 "intent": "Fixing a bug in a long-running unattended chain script without disturbing the run in progress",
 "date": "2026-08-28",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}