Awesome Bash

A curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

In addition of this list, you should read the list awesome-shell. It is a curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. You may also want to check awesome-zsh or awesome-fish. If you are looking for more lists, check awesome-link.

Books and Resources

• Bash manual - Bourne-Again SHell manual
• Bash FAQ (by Chet Ramey).
• Bash FAQ - Answers most of your questions (by Lhunath)
• Bash Pitfalls - Lists the common pitfalls beginners fall into, and how to avoid them.
• 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)
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting.
• Bash Guide for Beginners (by Machtelt Garrels)
• The Command Line Crash Course - A crash course for some common unix and shell commands
• Google's Shell Style Guide - Reasonable advice about code style.
• Sobell's Book - A practical guide to commands, editors, and shell programming

Scripts

• Bash One-Liners - A collection of practical or just pure awesome bash one-liners (repos by @janosgyerik)

Helpers

• ShellCheck - Automatically detects problems with sh/bash scripts.

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.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

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