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Top 23 Shell Bash Projects
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This wasn't an option for us because as an org we used their recommended hook (1) to automatically change node versions when switching directories, but it effectively undoes the lazy loading.
With mise you get the behaviour of automatically switching when you change directories effectively for free.
1. https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#zsh
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Project mention: Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-27
* https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/How-to-use-A...
BIND 9 example:
* https://dan.langille.org/2020/12/19/creating-a-very-specific...
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I believe I first learned to shorten animations on MacOSXHints.com (gone now). Regardless, I learned a lot of great "enhancements" here:
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
And here's the blog of the person who ran MacOSXHints.com:
https://robservatory.com/make-your-macos-dock-suck/
Fun aside, I'm pretty sure that my mention of a system issue that I read about that morning on MacOSXHints.com was a helper in landing a job in an interview that afternoon. What I mean is, I said, oh are you talking about "whatever thing on that site today…?" and it demonstrated that I was familiar with whatever internals.
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openvpn-install
OpenVPN road warrior installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora
для OpenVPN
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# Install dependencies to run ruby sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git curl build-essential libz-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev # Clone rbenv and install it git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv ~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv init source ~/.bashrc git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build
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openvpn-install
Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more (by angristan)
Project mention: Monitoring OpenVPN with Prometheus and Grafana: A Complete Guide | dev.to | 2025-09-26First, ensure your OpenVPN server is configured to write status files. If you don't have OpenVPN set up yet, I recommend using the excellent openvpn-install script:
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distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
Docker, Distrobox, Flatpak, and a bit of Homebrew where it makes sense
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Project mention: 2025's Top 5 AI Coding Tools: Balancing Efficiency and Stability | dev.to | 2025-08-30
Website: tabnine.com Key Differentiators: Lightweight, supports 20+ IDEs, affordable.
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Gogh
Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal also compatible with iTerm on macOS.
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DevOps-Bash-tools
1000+ DevOps Bash Scripts - AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Hadoop, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Spotify, MP3, LDAP, Code/Build Linting, pkg mgmt for Linux, Mac, Python, Perl, Ruby, NodeJS, Golang, Advanced dotfiles: .bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig, .screenrc, tmux..
View the Project on GitHub
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nb
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
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git-quick-stats
▁▅▆▃▅ Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository. (by git-quick-stats)
Project mention: Show HN: Git Quick Stats – The Easiest Way to Analyze Any Git Repositor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-11 -
yet-another-bench-script
YABS - a simple bash script to estimate Linux server performance using fio, iperf3, & Geekbench
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Project mention: Nginx Introduces Native Support for Acme Protocol | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-13
I am pretty sure that this is the thread that introduced me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681851
Unfortunately, web.archive.org didn't grab an https version of my main site from around that period. My oldest server build script in my current collection does have the following note in it:
**Get the current version of dehydrated from https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated ** -
Start with a minimal image like DietPi or build a custom image with Buildroot. The key is disabling everything you don't need:
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Project mention: Testable Dotfiles Management: Building Development Environment with Chezmoi | dev.to | 2025-10-06
To solve the above problems, my dotfiles repository builds an architecture that emphasizes testability. Setup scripts are managed as independent files to enable individual testing, quality is ensured through automated testing with Bats, and continuous testing and code coverage measurement are performed in macOS and Ubuntu environments using GitHub Actions.
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Project mention: bash-oo-framework VS ba.sh - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/bash-oo-framework | 2025-12-10
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Bash projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nvm | 93,676 |
| 2 | acme.sh | 46,803 |
| 3 | dotfiles | 31,323 |
| 4 | openvpn-install | 20,550 |
| 5 | rbenv | 16,697 |
| 6 | openvpn-install | 15,950 |
| 7 | bash-it | 15,081 |
| 8 | distrobox | 12,557 |
| 9 | TabNine | 10,793 |
| 10 | Gogh | 10,236 |
| 11 | Bash-Snippets | 9,932 |
| 12 | m-cli | 9,886 |
| 13 | awesome-bash | 9,825 |
| 14 | DevOps-Bash-tools | 8,293 |
| 15 | nb | 8,198 |
| 16 | airgeddon | 7,780 |
| 17 | git-quick-stats | 6,991 |
| 18 | yet-another-bench-script | 6,467 |
| 19 | dehydrated | 6,203 |
| 20 | DietPi | 6,097 |
| 21 | bats-core | 6,096 |
| 22 | Autoenv | 6,035 |
| 23 | bash-oo-framework | 5,625 |
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