Have you made a bash script that improved your life on some way? My examples

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/bash

Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
getstream.io
featured
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
www.influxdata.com
featured
  1. pkm

    A super minimal TUI package manager wrapper written in BASH v4.2+

    Some of my projects: TUI package manager — https://github.com/wick3dr0se/pkm

  2. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

    Stream logo
  3. archstrap

    A stupid simple script to bootstrap Arch Linux from other Linux distributions

    Bootstraps Arch Linux from existing Linux systems — https://github.com/wick3dr0se/archstrap

  4. snake

    :snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+ (by wick3dr0se)

  5. sysfetch

    A super tiny system information fetch script written in BASH

    A system information fetch utility I wrote as my first project, somehow most popular of anything I've wrote — https://github.com/wick3dr0se/sysfetch

  6. autoexec.bat

    .dotfiles for linux and macOS

    Here is mine for Debian and Ubuntu: https://github.com/alexmyczko/autoexec.bat/tree/master/config.sys

  7. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

    InfluxDB logo
NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts

  • Curious, how long did it take you to learn bash?

    2 projects | /r/bash | 17 Apr 2023
  • Beginner

    2 projects | /r/bash | 7 Apr 2023
  • Out of curiosity, what is your best script you can showcase?

    11 projects | /r/bash | 5 Mar 2023
  • Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2025
  • Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2025

Did you know that Shell is
the 11th most popular programming language
based on number of references?