bashate VS bish

Compare bashate vs bish and see what are their differences.

bashate

Code style enforcement for bash programs. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org. (by openstack)

bish

Bish is a language that compiles to Bash. It's designed to give shell scripting a more comfortable and modern feel. (by tdenniston)
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bashate bish
2 3
324 1,480
1.2% -
3.0 0.0
4 months ago almost 2 years ago
Python C++
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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bashate

Posts with mentions or reviews of bashate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-21.

bish

Posts with mentions or reviews of bish. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.
  • Show HN: Just.sh – compiler that turns Justfiles into portable shell scripts
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

    https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

    (Just fyi. I've been collecting links to similar things because of Reasons).

  • Pure Bash Bible
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2023
    I'd love to see a little language which compiles to _readable_ bash. Could it be so hard? There's a dead project that comes up now and then called bish.

    https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

  • Ask HN: Let's Build CheckStyle for Bash?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2022
    Oh people have tried - here are a few https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10239235/are-there-any-l...

    I vaguely remember quite liking bish when I saw it years ago https://github.com/tdenniston/bish but it looks like no commits in 6 years.

    This shelljs thing looks more promising, but really tedious to use https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs - shell.rm('-rf', 'out/Release'); I'd rather suffer proper bash than have to do that sort of thing.

    Nothing seems to have really caught on so far. Bash is easy to learn and hack on, and before you know it, that simple install.sh that started out moving a few files around is 5000 lines, unmaintainable, and critical to bootstrapping your software :)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bashate and bish you can also consider the following projects:

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

etc - Things that are too small to keep in a separate repo, but too important not to version them.

shfmt - Dockernized shfmt. This formats shell script.

testing-in-bash - Bash test framework comparison

shlint - A shell linting utility.

shunit2 - shUnit2 is a xUnit based unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts.

murex - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

hck - A sharp cut(1) clone.

cspell - A Spell Checker for Code!

pure-bash-bible - 📖 A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.

shfmt - A shell formatter (sh/bash/mksh)

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