argbash VS bash-commons

Compare argbash vs bash-commons and see what are their differences.

bash-commons

A collection of reusable Bash functions for handling common tasks such as logging, assertions, string manipulation, and more (by gruntwork-io)
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argbash bash-commons
13 3
1,359 724
- 1.4%
0.0 2.6
about 2 months ago about 1 month ago
M4 Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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argbash

Posts with mentions or reviews of argbash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.

bash-commons

Posts with mentions or reviews of bash-commons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
  • Bashkit V1
    38 projects | /r/bash | 27 Jan 2023
  • BashLib a helpful source file for any script
    36 projects | /r/bash | 20 Nov 2022
  • How to structure library?
    2 projects | /r/bash | 7 Aug 2022
    I think I phrased what I said poorly and unintentially communicated that I want to have all my code in one file. that' the opposite of what I'm wanting. To clarify, and I know this is splitting hairs but it illustrates my point. I think this log shell file is a good example of what I want to NOT do with my library. instead of having one file with 5 functions, I think it should be 5 files with no functions. that's to say the new file "log_info" would contain this text:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing argbash and bash-commons you can also consider the following projects:

bash-argsparse - An high level argument parsing library for bash

bashkit - Official bashkit repository

getoptions - An elegant option/argument parser for shell scripts (full support for bash and all POSIX shells)

basher - A package manager for shell scripts.

docopts - Shell interpreter for docopt, the command-line interface description language.

balls - Bash on Balls

modernish - Modernish is a library for writing robust, portable, readable, and powerful programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities.

bash-oo-framework - Bash Infinity is a modern standard library / framework / boilerplate for Bash

oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

awesome-bash - A curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.

argparse-bash - Use python's argparse module in shell scripts

bpkg - Lightweight bash package manager