ShellCheck VS maam

Compare ShellCheck vs maam and see what are their differences.

maam

A monadic approach to static analysis following the methodology of AAM (by davdar)
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ShellCheck maam
500 -
37,699 18
0.6% -
8.0 0.0
2 months ago over 9 years ago
Haskell Haskell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" 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 2025-02-09.
  • Debugging Bash Like a Sire
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2025
    I never thought of the idea of printing out a stack trace and a logging function is an example of such a good idea that is so obvious that I didn't think of it :-)

    I use -e sometimes but I really dislike scripts that rely on it for all error handling instead of handling errors and logging them.

    https://www.shellcheck.net/

    ^^ this tool has proven very useful for avoiding some of the most silly mistakes and making my scripts better. If you're maintaining scripts with other people then it is a great way of getting people to fix things without directly criticising them.

  • Shellcheck
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2025
  • Matanuska ADR 017 - Vitest, Vite, Grabthar, Oh My!
    11 projects | dev.to | 9 Feb 2025
    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.
  • Haskell: A Great Procedural Language
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2025
    Shellcheck is another useful one (linter for shell scripts)

    https://www.shellcheck.net/

  • TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2024
    There's now an issue for it https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/3088
  • Top FP technologies
    22 projects | dev.to | 29 Oct 2024
    ShellCheck
  • Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2024
    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...

  • Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2024
    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.

  • New shell scripting language, a new tablet, and in-product messaging
    2 projects | dev.to | 24 May 2024
    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.
  • Amber – the programming language compiled to Bash
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2024
    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/

maam

Posts with mentions or reviews of maam. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning maam yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

bash-language-server - A language server for Bash

stan - 🕵️ Haskell STatic ANalyser

shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

camfort - Light-weight verification and transformation tools for Fortran

hdocs - Haskell docs tool

fortran-src - Fortran parsing and static analysis infrastructure

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