What are some cool/fun things one can do with Bash?

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  • sysfetch

    A super tiny system information fetch script written in BASH

    I don't document many projects because they are for my usage. prompt.sh is well documented as well as bashin and of course sysfetch. Also Mac isn't suck on BASHv3 it can be updated. I hear that a lot but I've already had contributors prove that wrong. If you look at sysfetch it was all external commands on commit 1. Also external commands such as awk, sed, grep have absolutely nothing to do with BASH. Those are command usable from and script language. BASH has beautiful bashisms that can do a ton of things. Sysfetch was not usable from WSL, Mac or BSD before the usage of builtins. At one point it was usable from all 3 but I only care about Linux. Contributors can handle other operating systems again if they desire. I never plan to support proprietary bits anyway. It works on BSD already. Another thing to note is many operating systems have different flags for external commands like awk or sed and as a result do different things

  • ansitest

    ansible test stuff and root/bin bash scripts for Linux / OSX admins

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  • bin

    Scripts/programs that belong in :wastebasket: (by wick3dr0se)

    BASH can do many, many things. I wrote an ls wrapper that auto cd's, outputs image thumbnails and cat files(when specified) - completely replaced file managers for me. I wrote another script that downloads random or queried images and then automatically set it to the background(probably my favorite script I ever made). I wrote many more scripts, just for personal use.

  • nctui

    A network utility wrapper TUI written in pure Bash

    I have wrote some utilities for Linux such as sysfetch(which is packaged in the AUR). A good starter project I wrote is a simple type test(23 SLOC) I recently did. So, as you can see, the possibilities are pretty limitless

  • bashrc

    A super minimal, pretty BASH shell prompt (by wick3dr0se)

    I don't document many projects because they are for my usage. prompt.sh is well documented as well as bashin and of course sysfetch. Also Mac isn't suck on BASHv3 it can be updated. I hear that a lot but I've already had contributors prove that wrong. If you look at sysfetch it was all external commands on commit 1. Also external commands such as awk, sed, grep have absolutely nothing to do with BASH. Those are command usable from and script language. BASH has beautiful bashisms that can do a ton of things. Sysfetch was not usable from WSL, Mac or BSD before the usage of builtins. At one point it was usable from all 3 but I only care about Linux. Contributors can handle other operating systems again if they desire. I never plan to support proprietary bits anyway. It works on BSD already. Another thing to note is many operating systems have different flags for external commands like awk or sed and as a result do different things

  • bashin

    A minimal BASH framework

    I don't document many projects because they are for my usage. prompt.sh is well documented as well as bashin and of course sysfetch. Also Mac isn't suck on BASHv3 it can be updated. I hear that a lot but I've already had contributors prove that wrong. If you look at sysfetch it was all external commands on commit 1. Also external commands such as awk, sed, grep have absolutely nothing to do with BASH. Those are command usable from and script language. BASH has beautiful bashisms that can do a ton of things. Sysfetch was not usable from WSL, Mac or BSD before the usage of builtins. At one point it was usable from all 3 but I only care about Linux. Contributors can handle other operating systems again if they desire. I never plan to support proprietary bits anyway. It works on BSD already. Another thing to note is many operating systems have different flags for external commands like awk or sed and as a result do different things

  • ble.sh

    Bash Line Editor―a line editor written in pure Bash with syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc. for Bash interactive sessions.

    The most impressive thing I've seen written in Bash is this project: https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh

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