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Switch bash comparison test image to debian:bookworm-slim#14

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@thieman thieman commented Mar 9, 2026

bash:5.2 uses Alpine/BusyBox head which lacks GNU long-form flags (--lines=N, --bytes=N, --silent). debian:bookworm-slim is an official Docker image (1B+ pulls) with GNU bash 5.2 and GNU coreutils 9.1, giving byte-for-byte GNU compatibility without BusyBox limitations.

bash:5.2 uses Alpine/BusyBox head which lacks GNU long-form flags
(--lines=N, --bytes=N, --silent). debian:bookworm-slim is an official
Docker image (1B+ pulls) with GNU bash 5.2 and GNU coreutils 9.1,
giving byte-for-byte GNU compatibility without BusyBox limitations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@thieman thieman merged commit 329970e into main Mar 9, 2026
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