ShellCheck VS sh

Compare ShellCheck vs sh and see what are their differences.

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ShellCheck sh
488 21
34,934 6,751
- -
8.6 7.8
5 days ago 1 day ago
Haskell Go
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 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
  • 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

sh

Posts with mentions or reviews of sh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-21.

What are some alternatives?

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

bash-language-server - A language server for Bash

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

shfmt - Dockernized shfmt. This formats shell script.

go-pkg-xmlx

shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

go-pkg-rss

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

inject

PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!

toml - TOML parser for Golang with reflection.

efm-langserver - General purpose Language Server

blackfriday - Blackfriday: a markdown processor for Go