ShellCheck
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts (by koalaman)
bash-language-server
A language server for Bash (by bash-lsp)
| ShellCheck | bash-language-server | |
|---|---|---|
| 499 | 24 | |
| 37,244 | 2,327 | |
| 0.6% | 2.8% | |
| 8.0 | 8.2 | |
| 14 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| Haskell | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ShellCheck
Posts with mentions or reviews of ShellCheck.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-09.
- Shellcheck
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Matanuska ADR 017 - Vitest, Vite, Grabthar, Oh My!
Unfortunately, this did mean that configuration began to sprawl. At this point, I had configurations not just for Vite (shared with Vitest) and tsc, but also for Prettier, ESLint and even ShellCheck. Many of these files had shared settings that needed to match each other. This was somewhat manageable, until Vite was also in the mix.
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Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
Shellcheck is another useful one (linter for shell scripts)
https://www.shellcheck.net/
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TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash
There's now an issue for it https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/3088
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Top FP technologies
ShellCheck
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Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts
It's been so long since I used it seriously I couldn't tell you.
There's over 1000 open issues on the GitHub repo, and over 100 contain "false positive". I recognize several of these at first glance.
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...
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Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash
Reminder of the handy ShellCheck:
* https://www.shellcheck.net
Even if you don't follow or agree with its advice, it can be a handy and quick second opinion / sanity check.
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New shell scripting language, a new tablet, and in-product messaging
If you're only occasionally writing shell scripts, Amber may not be a priority for you. In such cases, linting tools like ShellCheck could be more beneficial. However, if you find yourself frequently writing shell scripts, to the point where you're considering Python or Ruby for better re-usability, then Amber is definitely worth your attention.
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Amber – the programming language compiled to Bash
As carlinigraphy points out, shellcheck [0] exists, and can easily be put into pre-commits, a CI pipeline, etc. This would have almost certainly flagged your problem immediately.
> I would be willing to learn a sane language, but bash isn't one.
It's a general language that has to be both an interactive interpreter and script executor, and it needs to support a huge variety of architectures and kernel versions, as well as historical decisions. It's going to have some cruft.
[0]: https://www.shellcheck.net/
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How I use Devbox in my Elm projects
These projects use Caddy as my local development server, Dart Sass for converting my Sass files to CSS, elm, elm-format, elm-optimize-level-2, elm-review, elm-test (only in Calculator), ShellCheck to find bugs in my shell scripts, and Terser to mangle and compress JavaScript code.
bash-language-server
Posts with mentions or reviews of bash-language-server.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-20.
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The Ultimate Bash Scripting Tutorial: From Beginner to Advanced
Bash IDE - Language server
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Being a bash developer in the 21st century
In neovim I would recommend setting shellcheck with null.ls or using the bash language server: https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server
both work really well
- Oils 0.17.0 – YSH Is Becoming Real
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The Case for Bash (2021)
Also maybe check out the bash language server.
https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server/
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Eglot or LSP complete in shell?
In that case, I think Eglot supports this language server: https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server out of the box but I've never tried it.
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Can treesitter be used to markdown-to-html things?
There are some language servers that are built using tree-sitter, so it's not impossibly slow. Github was running their syntax highlighting using tree-sitter I believe for the website.
- How often do you google or search for Bash commands/syntax?
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similar to shellcheck?
There are also: - shfmt - sh - bash language server - bashate
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How to improve your vim/nvim coding experience with vim-easycomplete?
Shell: bash-language-server required.
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Ask HN: Let's Build CheckStyle for Bash?
- Bash Language Server: https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ShellCheck and bash-language-server you can also consider the following projects:
shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter
LSP-bash - Bash support for Sublime's LSP plugin provided through bash-language-server.
hdocs - Haskell docs tool
.dotfiles - 💻 My settings for macOS, wezterm, zsh, nvim, and more 🛠
stan - 🕵️ Haskell STatic ANalyser
vscode-java - Java Language Support for Visual Studio Code