Awesome Bash

A curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.

Inspired by the awesome68k 9k list thing.

In addition of this list, you should read the list awesome-shell10k 932 . It is a curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. You may also want to check awesome-zsh4k 272 or awesome-fish182 13 . If you are looking for more lists, check awesome-link68k 9k .

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-handbook3k 269 - 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)
• learnyoubash364 44 - An interactive workshopper which will learn 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.

Command-Line Productivity

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

• aliases63 8 - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell
• bashhub385 27 - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
• bashmarks687 138 - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• commacd198 11 - A faster way to move around in Bash
• hstr772 61 - Bash History Suggest Box
• qfc467 15 - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
• sshrc4k 152 - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

• bash-git-prompt3k 655 - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
• bash-powerline108 17 - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
• bashstrap2k 133 - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
• git-prompt297 95 - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
• gittify21 5 - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
• liquidprompt3k 395 - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
• mysql-colorize36 5 - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
• oh-my-git3k 269 - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
• progress-bar.sh22 3 - Simple & sexy progressbar for bash, give it a duration and it will do the rest .
• sexy-bash-prompt810 138 - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
• bash-sensible2k 117 - An attempt at saner Bash defaults

Data

Tools for working with data.

• BigBash133 2 - 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.

• bocker4k 358 - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
• git-sh592 43 - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work

Downloading and Serving

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

• balls490 21 - Bash on Balls
• bashttpd458 53 - A web server written in Bash
• Dropbox-Uploader5k 863 - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
•   ngincat63 4 - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat

Applications

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

• bashblog629 123 - A Bash script that handles blog posting
• pushbullet-bash199 55 - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
• todo.sh87 14 - A simple and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file.

Games

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

• bash2048409 104 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
• minesweeper4 1 - Bash implementation of minesweeper

Website

• Bash One-Liners - A collection of practical or just pure awesome bash one-liners (repos96 23 by @janosgyerik)
• commandlinefu - A repository for the most elegant and useful UNIX commands

Shell Package Management

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations.

• bash-it4k 1k - A community Bash framework
• basher296 23 - A package manager for shell scripts
• bpkg909 49 - A lightweight bash package manager
• homeshick1k 125 - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash

Shell Script Development

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

• ansi100 8 - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
• assert.sh311 49 - Bash unit testing framework
• BashScriptTestingLibrary99 3 - A unit testing framework for Bash scripts
• bash3boilerplate972 104 - Templates to write better Bash scripts
• bashful168 8 - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
• bashmanager37 7 - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
• bats4k 354 - Bash Automated Testing System
• bash_unit48 20 - bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals
• mo131 25 - Mustache templates in pure bash
• semver_bash37 11 - Semantic Versioning in Bash
• shfmt798 40 - Format bash programs
• shunit2309 56 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit
• bashing16 2 - Smashing Bash into Pieces - Bash framework for creating command line tools

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

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in awesome-awesome177 13 and awesome-awesomeness20k 3k .

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