How to do things safely in Bash

• ShellCheck

  488 34,934 8.6 Haskell

  ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

If you’re interested in writing safe shell scripts then check out shellcheck:

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

If you’re interested I’ve written a git hook for it that runs a check when you git commit:

https://github.com/alblue/scripts/blob/main/shellcheck-pre-c...

You should also check out her Google shell script style guide:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html

• shellharden

  16 4,537 4.7 Rust

  The corrective bash syntax highlighter

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• scripts

  2 3 0.0 Shell

  Useful scripts that I find handy to work with (by alblue)

If you’re interested in writing safe shell scripts then check out shellcheck:

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

If you’re interested I’ve written a git hook for it that runs a check when you git commit:

https://github.com/alblue/scripts/blob/main/shellcheck-pre-c...

You should also check out her Google shell script style guide:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html

• rust_cmd_lib

  11 984 8.0 Rust

  Common rust command-line macros and utilities, to write shell-script like tasks in a clean, natural and rusty way

zsh is also doing the variable substitution better than bash. FYI, I just released rust_cmd_lib 1.0 recently, which can do variable substitution without any quotes: https://github.com/rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib

• makesure

  12 329 9.3 Shell

  Simple task/command runner with declarative goals and dependencies

5. Easy shell interoperability

As an example here is a simplistic build tool [1] I’ve developed in AWK. As you can check [2] it runs unchanged under Linux/macOS/Win (via Git Bash).

[1] https://github.com/xonixx/makesure/blob/main/makesure.awk

• oil

  234 2,720 9.9 Python

  Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

Have you tried any of the shells here?

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells

Discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26121592

A lot of them are "fundamentally reimagining" shell (actually I would say most of them are; whether that's good or bad depends on the user's POV).

Oil is reimagining shell, but also providing a graceful upgrade path. Out of all the shells I'd say it's most focused on the fundamental language and runtime, and less on the interactive issues (right now).

• babashka

  112 3,798 9.2 Clojure

  Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

  

Actually, the one thing that I as a systems engineer really like about Clojure is the threading macro (-> some-data some-function-applied-on-some-data some-otherfunction) or (->> ...) for inserting not as a second, but last argument. That is like a pipeline but usually more readable to me even though I am proficient with the shell (and I must admit even PowerShell, which really is more comparable to Perl with a bit of SQL and other flavours here and there than bash).

Sysadmins/ system engineers might love Babashka: https://github.com/babashka/babashka which is a large subset of Clojure + some frequently used libraries as a native GraalVM image. It is portable, has very fast startup and if the script becomes a larger program, you can easily switch to ClojureScript + Node.js (e.g. for still very fast startup) or Clojure (on the normal JVM) or perhaps build your own GraalVM image. You might also just open a REPL and run it as a single session but that is rather unique in the sysadmin/ systems engineer space, where most things are launched on schedule e.g. each 5 minutes by a script and in case the startup time is somewhat long, it might dominate the execution time.

Btw. babashka seems to be about twice as fast to start on my Debian:

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• PowerShell

  397 43,290 9.6 C#

  PowerShell for every system!

  

I'd probably like to see powershell usage increase too, but I think we may be in the minority. Every time it comes up I check to see if it is available in Debian and see that the packaging bug¹ has been open for years without anyone caring enough to move on it. The referenced upstream bug² points out that it isn't capital-F Free enough to distribute [yet], but you'd expect more comments in the bug if people were pushing(or a package for the non-free section).

¹ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834756

² https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/5869

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