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Top 5 Go shell-scripting Projects
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Project mention: AquaShell VS abs - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/dnyAquaShell | 2024-10-10
ABS is a programming language that works best when you're scripting on your terminal. It tries to combine the elegance of languages such as Python, or Ruby with the convenience of Bash.
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Project mention: Shell-secrets – GPG-encrypted environment variables | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-17
Unless you're good at actually maintaining your gpg keychain and need other people to access this, I really wouldn't bother with gpg. There are way better and simpler options.
Age has a simpler interface and SSH key support https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
ejson2env has the environment variable integration and ejson has multiple backends https://github.com/Shopify/ejson2env
direnv can support any cli secrets manager per project directory https://direnv.net/
I've dealt with enough "why did this break" situations with gpg secrets files used by capable teams that I'd never recommend that to anyone.
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Project mention: Show HN: Forget bash, write your shell scripts in plain English | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-26
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So I made it a reality in an evening an it kinda works: https://github.com/statico/llmscript
It generates a script and a test suite, and then it attempts to fix the script until it passes the tests.
It’s written in Go, but I hardly know Go, and used Cursor to generate most of it in a few hours. It works with Ollama and Claude, and I added support for OpenAI but haven’t tested it. You can also run it in Docker if you want to sandbox it.
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source shell-scripting projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | shell-operator | 2,556 |
| 2 | abs | 542 |
| 3 | shef | 276 |
| 4 | ejson2env | 81 |
| 5 | llmscript | 11 |
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