Awesome Bash

A curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.

In addition to 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 sindresorhus/awesome.

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.
• explainshell - A website that breaks down and explains shell (Bash) commands (including their flags and options).

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
• ble.sh - User-friendly and feature rich readline replacement, with syntax highlighting, better command completion, and improved multi-line editing.
• 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.

• aphrodite-terminal-theme — Minimalistic theme (prompt) for sexy terminals.
• 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
• wordle - Wordle in less than 50 lines of Bash

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
• Bashmatic - an easy to use DSL library for building BASH-based tooling & installers (900+ functions).
• bunit - 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
• bashunit - A simple testing library for bash scripts
• 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
• DevOps-Bash-tools - 750+ DevOps Shell Scripts and Advanced Bash environment
• modernish - library with various features for shell scripting

Just for fun

• pokeget - Displays sprites of pokemon in the terminal

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 Libera.​Chat. The main contributors of the BashGuide, BashFAQ, BashPitfalls and ShellCheck hang around there

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in awesome-awesome and awesome-awesomeness.

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