Bash Collection of Tools

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What is Bash?

Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system. The name is an acronym for the ‘Bourne-Again SHell’, a pun on Stephen Bourne, the author of the direct ancestor of the current Unix shell sh, which appeared in the Seventh Edition Bell Labs Research version of Unix.

Bash is largely compatible with sh and incorporates useful features from the Korn shell ksh and the C shell csh. It is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools portion of the IEEE POSIX specification (IEEE Standard 1003.1). It offers functional improvements over sh for both interactive and programming use.

Shell

Shell is a macro processor which allows for an interactive or non-interactive command execution.

Scripting

Scripting allows for an automatic commands execution that would otherwise be executed interactively one-by-one.

To see what is your default interpreter execute command echo $SHELL:

 $ echo $SHELL
 /bin/bash

Table of Contents

• Introduction

Books and Resources

• The Bash-Hackers Wiki - Human-readable documentation of any kind about GNU Bash
• Bash beginner's mistakes (by the Bash-Hackers Wiki)
• Bash Guide - A bash guide for beginners. (by Lhunath)
• Bash FAQ - Answers most of your questions (by Lhunath)
• Bash Pitfalls - Lists the common pitfalls beginners fall into, and how to avoid them
• Bash manual - Bourne-Again Shell manual
• Bash FAQ (by Chet Ramey)
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting
• Bash Guide for Beginners (by Machtelt Garrels)
• Bash Programming - Intro/How-to
• bash-handbook - A handbook for those who want to learn Bash without diving in too deeply
• Google's Shell Style Guide - Reasonable advice about code style
• Sobell's Book - A practical guide to commands, editors, and shell programming
• WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting
• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
• learnyoubash - An interactive workshopper which will teach you how to use the terminal and write your the first Bash script.
• Defensive BASH Programming - Methods to defend your programs from breaking as well as keeping the code tidy and clean.
• Pure Bash Bible - A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.

Command-Line Productivity

Search, bookmarks, multiplexing, and other tools that make your terminal experience more productive.

• aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell
• bashhub - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
• bashhub-server - Privately hosted open source bashhub server.
• bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
• has - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
• hstr - Bash History Suggest Box
• qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
• sshrc - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH
• zoxide - A better way to navigate your filesystem. Written in Rust, cross-shell, and much faster than other autojumpers.

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

• bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
• bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
• bashstrap - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
• git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
• gittify - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
• liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
• mysql-colorize - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
• oh-my-git - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
• progress-bar.sh - Simple & sexy progressbar for bash, give it a duration and it will do the rest .
• sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
• bash-sensible - An attempt at saner Bash defaults

Data

Tools for working with data.

• BigBash - Open-source converter that generates a bash one-liner from an SQL Select query, no database necessary

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

• bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
• git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
• mkdkr - Make + Docker + Shell = CI Pipeline

Downloading and Serving

Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.

• balls - Bash on Balls
• bashttpd - A web server written in Bash
• Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
• ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
• xiringuito - SSH-based VPN for poors

Applications

Command line-based applications or command line access to existing services.

• bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
• pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
• todo.sh - A simple and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file
• cheapci - A continuous integration framework implemented in bash

Games

All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.

• bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
• minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
• solitaire - Bash implementation of solitaire

Website

• Bash One-Liners - A collection of practical or just pure awesome bash one-liners (repos by @janosgyerik)
• commandlinefu - A repository for the most elegant and useful UNIX commands

Shell Package Management

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations.

• bash-it - A community Bash framework
• basher - A package manager for shell scripts
• bpkg - A lightweight bash package manager
• homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash

Shell Script Development

Tools for writing, improving, or organizing Bash or other shell scripts

• ansi - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
• argbash - Bash argument parsing code generator
• assert.sh - Bash unit testing framework
• async-bash - implementation of async functions in bash
• bats - Bash Automated Testing System
• bash3boilerplate - Templates to write better Bash scripts
• bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
• bashify - few helper functions in bash ( especially string manipulation functions)
• bashing - Smashing Bash into Pieces - Bash framework for creating command line tools
• bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
• bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
• BashScriptTestingLibrary - A unit testing framework for Bash scripts
• Bash Infinity - A modern boilerplate / framework / standard library for bash
• bash-modules - a collection of modules for unofficial strict mode
• bash_unit - bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals
• mo - Mustache templates in pure bash
• semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
• shellcheck - A static analysis tool for shell scripts
• shfmt - Format bash programs
• shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit

Community

• Stack Overflow - Bash tag on Stack Overflow
• /r/Bash - A subreddit dedicated to bash scripting
• /r/CommandLine - for anything regarding the command line, in any operating system
• #bash - IRC channel on freenode. The main contributors of the BashGuide, BashFAQ, BashPitfalls and ShellCheck hang around there

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