shfmt VS starship

Compare shfmt vs starship and see what are their differences.

shfmt

A shell formatter (sh/bash/mksh) (by patrickvane)

starship

β˜„πŸŒŒοΈ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! (by starship)
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shfmt starship
2 298
84 40,684
- 3.0%
0.0 9.7
29 days ago 6 days ago
Go Rust
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License ISC License
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shfmt

Posts with mentions or reviews of shfmt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-21.
  • Bash Defaults Not Working Like Atom?
    1 project | /r/pulsaredit | 21 Feb 2023
    Format-Shell is working, but I had to install shfmt manually: https://github.com/patrickvane/shfmt/releases/tag/master. Only one issue is that they don't offer native MacOSX for Silicon, but maybe that's not an issue
  • similar to shellcheck?
    5 projects | /r/bash | 21 Apr 2022
    There are also: - shfmt - sh - bash language server - bashate

starship

Posts with mentions or reviews of starship. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing shfmt and starship you can also consider the following projects:

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

neoformat - :sparkles: A (Neo)vim plugin for formatting code.

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

ale - Check syntax in Vim/Neovim asynchronously and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support

ohmyzsh - πŸ™ƒ A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

vscode-bash-debug - Bash shell debugger extension for VSCode (based on bashdb)

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

bash-language-server - A language server for Bash

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.