ShellCheck VS fish-shell

Compare ShellCheck vs fish-shell and see what are their differences.

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ShellCheck fish-shell
488 320
34,934 24,502
- 1.7%
8.6 9.9
9 days ago 5 days ago
Haskell Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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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.

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 2024-04-19.
  • Ask HN: Is there a GUI for bash shell?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    ncurse, dialog, zenity[2]. i/o buffering may be an issue [3a,3b]

    Assuming using same account, use history command to show past commands[0a, 0b]

    'load random example' on shellcheck using own custom examples from history command.[1]

    --------

    [3a] : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/stdbu...

    [3b] : http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25372/how-to-turn-of...

    [2] : http//funprojects.blog/2021/01/25/zenity-command-line-dialogs/

    [1] : http://www.shellcheck.net/

    [0a] : http://www.tecmint.com/history-command-examples/

    [0b] : http://www.tecmint.com/remember-linux-commands/

    web based documentation: https://www.tecmint.com/linux-commands-cheat-sheet/

    commands grouped by typical usage patterns : https://www.tecmint.com/essential-linux-commands/

  • DevSecOps with AWS- IaC at scale - Building your own platform - Part 1
    8 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2024
    ... #************************** Terraform ************************************* ARG TERRAFORM_VERSION=1.7.3 RUN set -ex \ && curl -O https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/${TERRAFORM_VERSION}/terraform_${TERRAFORM_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip && unzip terraform_${TERRAFORM_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip -d /usr/local/bin/ RUN set -ex \ && mkdir -p $HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache && echo 'plugin_cache_dir = "$HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache"' > ~/.terraformrc #************************* Terragrunt ************************************* ARG TERRAGRUNT_VERSION=0.55.1 RUN set -ex \ && wget https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt/releases/download/v${TERRAGRUNT_VERSION}/terragrunt_linux_amd64 -q \ && mv terragrunt_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/terragrunt \ && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/terragrunt #*********************** Terramate **************************************** ARG TERRAMATE_VERSION=0.4.5 RUN set -ex \ && wget https://github.com/mineiros-io/terramate/releases/download/v${TERRAMATE_VERSION}/terramate_${TERRAMATE_VERSION}_linux_x86_64.tar.gz \ && tar -xzf terramate_${TERRAMATE_VERSION}_linux_x86_64.tar.gz \ && mv terramate /usr/local/bin/terramate \ && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/terramate #*********************** tfsec ******************************************** ARG TFSEC_VERSION=1.28.5 RUN set -ex \ && wget https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec/releases/download/v${TFSEC_VERSION}/tfsec-linux-amd64 \ && mv tfsec-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/tfsec \ && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tfsec \ && terragrunt --version #**********************Terraform docs ************************************ ARG TERRRAFORM_DOCS_VERSION=0.17.0 RUN set -ex \ && curl -sSLo ./terraform-docs.tar.gz https://terraform-docs.io/dl/v${TERRRAFORM_DOCS_VERSION}/terraform-docs-v${TERRRAFORM_DOCS_VERSION}-$(uname)-amd64.tar.gz \ && tar -xzf terraform-docs.tar.gz \ && chmod +x terraform-docs \ && mv terraform-docs /usr/local/bin/terraform-docs #********************* ShellCheck ***************************************** ARG SHELLCHECK_VERSION="stable" RUN set -ex \ && wget -qO- "https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/releases/download/${SHELLCHECK_VERSION?}/shellcheck-${SHELLCHECK_VERSION?}.linux.x86_64.tar.xz" | tar -xJv \ && cp "shellcheck-${SHELLCHECK_VERSION}/shellcheck" /usr/bin/ \ && shellcheck --version ...
  • Ask HN: Popular open source tool originally written in Haskell?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2024
    ShellCheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
  • Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    If I want to write better shell scripts I usually run shellcheck and adjust accordingly or if I need facilities not provided by the shell i switch to a full fledged programming language. Ans oh yes, `sh` is present almost on every BSD and Linux box for free so I consider it an important thing to at least be comfortable with.

    shellcheck: https://www.shellcheck.net/

  • How I use Nix in my Elm projects
    8 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    When I run nix-shell at the root of the project it puts me in a Nix shell that contains, among other programs, caddy and shellcheck. Notice that in the shellHook I add the project's shell scripts to the PATH. So once I'm in the Nix shell I can, among other things:
  • Ask HN: A Bash guide for Posix programmers?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2023
  • Regex support to list modules in .cabal?
    1 project | /r/haskell | 4 Dec 2023
    I have also seen some projects on github like ShellCheck which first make a library, expose all the modules and then simple add that do build-depends of the final executable. Is this the recommended approach than having just one executable and adding all the modules to other-modules:?
  • Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023
    The error checks can be pretty arcane:

       https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/Checks
  • Is there a syntax checker?
    2 projects | /r/groff | 24 Oct 2023
    Similar to for instance shellcheck to check the syntax of shell scripts, is there an equivalent for the set of roff commands typically used in a (Linux) man page? I'm aware that e.g. pandoc permits the conversion of an other format (e.g., org) to both roff man and roff ms.
  • Shellcheck – finds bugs in your shell scripts
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023

fish-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of fish-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.
  • FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor – via a project dev
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
    Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish's releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build system. The custom tarball is used by Arch Linux at the very least.

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.1

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7772#issueco...

    https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...

  • Oh My Zsh
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
  • Proposal for porting fish-shell from C++ to Rust
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
  • Converting the Kernel to C++
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2024
    A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

    An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

    It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/

  • Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    And this discussion from November has an update on the progress: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123
  • Day 5 - More or less...
    3 projects | /r/linuxupskillchallenge | 7 Dec 2023
    We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around.
  • Fish – Update on the Rust Port
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 28 Nov 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 28 Nov 2023
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    They have a variety of reasons to move to rust, as outlined in their original rust discussion[1]. Mostly around finding other contributors, and adding an async/parallel mode they're comfortable with.

    [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512

  • Devuan アップグレード: 4 から 5 Daedalus へ
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Sep 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ShellCheck and fish-shell you can also consider the following projects:

bash-language-server - A language server for Bash

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

shfmt - Dockernized shfmt. This formats shell script.

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

nushell - A new type of shell

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

oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework

PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!

xonsh - :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.

efm-langserver - General purpose Language Server

tokyonight.nvim - 🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.