ShellCheck VS fzf

Compare ShellCheck vs fzf and see what are their differences.

fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder (by junegunn)
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ShellCheck fzf
488 407
34,934 59,739
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8.6 9.6
11 days ago about 14 hours ago
Haskell Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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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

fzf

Posts with mentions or reviews of fzf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.
  • pyfzf : Python Fuzzy Finder
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2024
    fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
  • Command Line Fuzzy Search
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
  • So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
    Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.

    "git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    "git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.

    "git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

  • Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
    > my history is so noisy I had to find another way

    The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

    [2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...

  • Z – Jump Around
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
    You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.

    I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.

    ¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

    ² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

  • alacritty-themes not working any more!!!
    6 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024
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  • Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues

    [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    [2] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

  • Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...

  • Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
  • A Practical Guide to fzf: Vim Integration
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 29 Nov 2023
    There are two plugins allowing us to use fzf in Vim: the native fzf plugin directly installed with fzf, and fzf.vim. The second plugin is built on the first one.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ShellCheck and fzf you can also consider the following projects:

bash-language-server - A language server for Bash

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool

shfmt - Dockernized shfmt. This formats shell script.

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

z - z - jump around

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

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!

mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

efm-langserver - General purpose Language Server

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console