Best bash frameworks/addons

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

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  • modernish

    Modernish is a library for writing robust, portable, readable, and powerful programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities.

  • For my big scripts I run my own libraries. If I wasn't doing that, I'd probably be looking at modernish. Looking further ahead than that is /r/oilshell

  • ShellCheck

    ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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  • bats

    Discontinued Bash Automated Testing System

  • https://github.com/sstephenson/bats (testing)

  • bash-scripts

    Different bash scripts (by mnorin)

  • argbash

    Bash argument parsing code generator

  • bashew

    bash script micro-framework - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing

  • https://github.com/pforret/bashew Boilerplate that takes care of parameter parsing, quiet/verbose mode, check for dependencies on external binaries

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.

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