The Bash-Hackers Wiki

Human-readable documentation of any kind about GNU Bash.

Bash beginner's mistakes

List of Bash beginner mistakes (by the Bash-Hackers Wiki).

Bash Guide

A bash guide for beginners (by Lhunath).

Bash FAQ

Answers most of your questions (by Lhunath).

Bash Pitfalls

Lists the common pitfalls beginners fall into, and how to avoid them.

Bash manual

Bourne-Again Shell manual.

Bash FAQ

(by Chet Ramey)

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting.

Bash Guide for Beginners

Bash guide for beginners (by Machtelt Garrels).

Bash Programming - Intro/How-to

bash-handbook

A handbook for those who want to learn Bash without diving in too deeply.

Google's Shell Style Guide

Reasonable advice about code style.

Sobell's Book

A practical guide to commands, editors, and shell programming.

WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting

Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)

Defensive BASH Programming

Methods to defend your programs from breaking as well as keeping the code tidy and clean.

Pure Bash Bible

A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.

explainshell

A website that breaks down and explains shell (Bash) commands (including their flags and options).

Safe ways to do things in bash

How to do things safely in Bash.

aliases

Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.

bashhub-server

Privately hosted open source bashhub server.

bashhub

Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable :cloud:.

bashmarks

Directory bookmarks for the shell.

bashmount

Easily manage removable media.

ble.sh

User-friendly and feature rich readline replacement, with syntax highlighting, better command completion, and improved multi-line editing.

commacd

A faster way to move around in Bash.

forkrun

A pure-bash tool for running code in parallel. Similar in syntax and speed to xargs -P, but with more features and native Bash function support.

has

has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path.

hstr

Bash History Suggest Box.

sshrc

Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH.

utility-bash-scripts

Useful bash scripts to do automatable tasks with a single command.

zoxide

A better way to navigate your filesystem. Written in Rust, cross-shell, and much faster than other autojumpers.

aphrodite-terminal-theme

Minimalistic theme (prompt) for sexy terminals.

bash-git-prompt

An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users.

bash-powerline

Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script.

bashstrap

A quick way to spruce up macOS terminal.

git-prompt

Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules.

gittify

A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases.

liquidprompt

A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.

LS_COLORS

A collection of LS_COLORS definitions.

oh-my-git

An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.

oh-my-bash

A delightful community-driven framework for managing your bash configuration.

progress-bar.sh

Simple & sexy progressbar for bash, give it a duration and it will do the rest.

sexy-bash-prompt

Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches.

bash-sensible

An attempt at saner Bash defaults.

bocker

Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash.

git-sh

A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.

mkdkr

Make + Docker + Shell = CI Pipeline.

Bash-web-server

A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc.

Dropbox-Uploader

Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox.

balls

Bash on Balls.

bashbro

A Bash-based web file browser - allowing you to remotely browse, stream, view documents and save files via your web browser.

bash-stack

Modern web framework in bash.

bashttpd

A web server written in Bash.

httpd.sh

A trivial web server in bash, using ctypes.sh.

ngincat

Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat.

sherver

Pure Bash lightweight web server.

xiringuito

SSH-based VPN for poors.

bashblog

A Bash script that handles blog posting.

pushbullet-bash

Bash interface to the PushBullet API.

todo.sh

A simple and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file.

cheapci

A continuous integration framework implemented in bash.

bash2048

Bash implementation of 2048 game.

minesweeper

Bash implementation of minesweeper.

wordle

Wordle in less than 50 lines of Bash.

Bash One-Liners

A collection of practical or just pure awesome bash one-liners (repos by @janosgyerik).

commandlinefu

A repository for the most elegant and useful UNIX commands.

bash-it

A community Bash framework.

basher

A package manager for shell scripts.

bpkg

A lightweight bash package manager.

homeshick

Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash.

alinex bashlib

Modular bash library for server administration, data processing, and remote scripting.

ansi

ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more.

argbash

Bash argument parsing code generator.

assert.sh

Bash unit testing framework.

async-bash

Implementation of async functions in bash.

bats

Bash Automated Testing System.

bash3boilerplate

Templates to write better Bash scripts.

bashful

A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts.

bashify

Few helper functions in bash (especially string manipulation functions).

bashing

Smashing Bash into Pieces - Bash framework for creating command line tools.

bashly

Bash command line framework and CLI generator.

bashmanager

Mini bash framework for creating command line tools.

Bashmatic

An easy to use DSL library for building BASH-based tooling & installers (900+ functions).

bunit

A unit testing framework for Bash scripts.

Bash Infinity

A modern boilerplate / framework / standard library for bash.

bash-modules

A collection of modules for unofficial strict mode.

bash_unit

Bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals.

bashunit

A simple testing library for bash scripts.

lobash

A modern, safe, powerful utility/library for Bash script development.

mo

Mustache templates in pure bash.

semver_bash

Semantic Versioning in Bash.

shellcheck

A static analysis tool for shell scripts.

Safe ways to do things in bash

How to do things safely in Bash.

shfmt

Format bash programs.

shunit2

A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.

DevOps-Bash-tools

750+ DevOps Shell Scripts and Advanced Bash environment.

modernish

Library with various features for shell scripting.

json.bash

Bash library and command-line tool that creates JSON.

timep

A next-gen profiler and FlameGraph generator for bash code.

Bash Screensavers

A collection of screensavers written entirely in bash.

pokeget

Displays sprites of pokemon in the terminal.

Stack Overflow

Bash tag on Stack Overflow.

/r/bash

A subreddit dedicated to bash scripting.

/r/commandline

For anything regarding the command line, in any operating system.

#bash

IRC channel on Libera.​Chat. The main contributors of the BashGuide, BashFAQ, BashPitfalls and ShellCheck hang around there.