Anyone is a generalization based on a narrow viewpoint. I would say I am pretty used to command-line tools at this point, at least enough to be using linux as a daily driver comfortably. And I frankly I didn't know 1-indexed fields were the norm, even though I knew $1 is the first argument to a poxis shell script (I always assumed $0 referred to the script or command itself).

I get what you're saying, but to be more general I'd argue that's just 0 indexing with the API specifying what's in what index.

I'd more "formally" define 0/1 indexing as:

Zero indexing: arr[0] is a valid way to address the first element of an array, and len(arr) - 1 is the index to the final element.

One indexing: arr[0] results in an error or an out of bounds access, and len(arr) is the index to the final element.

These statements are true in Matlab, but not most command line tools.