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Aug 16, 2025
Command-Line Productivity
- bashmount (⭐252) - Easily manage removable media.
Jul 26, 2025
Shell Script Development
- timep (⭐114) - A next-gen profiler and FlameGraph generator for bash code.
Sep 07, 2024
Shell Script Development
- lobash (⭐388) - A modern, safe, powerful utility/library for Bash script development.
Sep 03, 2024
Customization
- oh-my-bash (⭐6.8k) - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your bash configuration.
Jul 26, 2024
Command-Line Productivity
- forkrun (⭐174) - 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.
Jul 05, 2024
Shell Script Development
- json.bash (⭐453) - Bash library and command-line tool that creates JSON.
May 29, 2024
Command-Line Productivity
- utility-bash-scripts (⭐451) - Useful bash scripts to do automatable tasks with a single command.
Downloading and Serving
- bash-stack (⭐741) - Modern web framework in bash.
Feb 09, 2024
Books and Resources
- Bash beginner's mistakes - List of Bash beginner mistakes (by the Bash-Hackers Wiki).
Jan 05, 2024
Downloading and Serving
- httpd.sh (⭐120) - A trivial web server in bash, using ctypes.sh.
- Bash-web-server (⭐976) - A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc.
Dec 18, 2023
Books and Resources
- Safe ways to do things in bash (⭐4.7k) - How to do things safely in Bash.
Shell Script Development
- shellharden (⭐4.7k) - The corrective bash syntax highlighter.
Nov 19, 2023
Downloading and Serving
- sherver (⭐345) - Pure Bash lightweight web server.
Oct 23, 2023
Books and Resources
- The Bash-Hackers Wiki - Human-readable documentation of any kind about GNU Bash.
- 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.
- 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-handbook (⭐5.9k) - 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.
Command-Line Productivity
- aliases (⭐593) - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.
- bashhub (⭐1.3k) - Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable ☁️.
- bashmarks (⭐1.9k) - Directory bookmarks for the shell.
- commacd (⭐369) - A faster way to move around in Bash.
- has (⭐769) -
hashelps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path.
- hstr (⭐4.3k) - Bash History Suggest Box.
- qfc (⭐582) - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh.
- sshrc (⭐350) - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH.
Customization
- aphrodite-terminal-theme (⭐158) - Minimalistic theme (prompt) for sexy terminals.
- bash-git-prompt (⭐6.8k) - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users.
- bash-powerline (⭐904) - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script.
- bashstrap (⭐1.6k) - A quick way to spruce up macOS terminal.
- git-prompt (⭐327) - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules.
- gittify (⭐78) - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases.
- liquidprompt (⭐4.6k) - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
- LS_COLORS (⭐2.2k) - A collection of LS_COLORS definitions.
- mysql-colorize (⭐106) - Colorization for mysql comand-line client.
- oh-my-git (⭐3.7k) - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.
- progress-bar.sh (⭐248) - Simple & sexy progressbar for
bash, give it a duration and it will do the rest.
- sexy-bash-prompt (⭐1.1k) - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches.
- bash-sensible (⭐2.1k) - An attempt at saner Bash defaults.
Data
- BigBash (⭐291) - Open-source converter that generates a bash one-liner from an SQL Select query, no database necessary.
For Developers
- bocker (⭐12k) - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash.
- git-sh (⭐742) - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.
- mkdkr (⭐378) - Make + Docker + Shell = CI Pipeline.
Downloading and Serving
- balls (⭐859) - Bash on Balls.
- bashttpd (⭐1.5k) - A web server written in Bash.
- Dropbox-Uploader (⭐6.6k) - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox.
- ngincat (⭐181) - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat.
- xiringuito (⭐1.1k) - SSH-based VPN for poors.
Applications
- bashblog (⭐1.7k) - A Bash script that handles blog posting.
- pushbullet-bash (⭐236) - Bash interface to the PushBullet API.
- todo.sh (⭐5.9k) - A simple and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file.
- cheapci (⭐188) - A continuous integration framework implemented in bash.
Games
- bash2048 (⭐905) - Bash implementation of 2048 game.
- minesweeper (⭐64) - Bash implementation of minesweeper.
- wordle - Wordle in less than 50 lines of Bash.
Website
- Bash One-Liners - A collection of practical or just pure awesome bash one-liners (repos (⭐218) by @janosgyerik).
- commandlinefu - A repository for the most elegant and useful UNIX commands.
Shell Package Management
- bash-it (⭐15k) - A community Bash framework.
- basher (⭐1.2k) - A package manager for shell scripts.
- bpkg (⭐1.9k) - A lightweight bash package manager.
- homeshick (⭐2.2k) - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash.
Shell Script Development
- ansi (⭐731) - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more.
- argbash (⭐1.4k) - Bash argument parsing code generator.
- assert.sh (⭐491) - Bash unit testing framework.
- async-bash (⭐141) - Implementation of async functions in bash.
- bats (⭐5.5k) - Bash Automated Testing System.
- bash3boilerplate (⭐2.2k) - Templates to write better Bash scripts.
- bashful (⭐612) - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts.
- bashify (⭐102) - Few helper functions in bash (especially string manipulation functions).
- bashing (⭐80) - Smashing Bash into Pieces - Bash framework for creating command line tools.
- bashly (⭐2.3k) - Bash command line framework and CLI generator.
- bashmanager (⭐100) - Mini bash framework for creating command line tools.
- Bashmatic (⭐163) - An easy to use DSL library for building BASH-based tooling & installers (900+ functions).
- bunit (⭐200) - A unit testing framework for Bash scripts.
- Bash Infinity (⭐5.6k) - A modern boilerplate / framework / standard library for bash.
- bash-modules (⭐141) - A collection of modules for unofficial strict mode.
- bash_unit (⭐622) - Bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals.
- bashunit (⭐364) - A simple testing library for bash scripts.
- mo (⭐593) - Mustache templates in pure bash.
- semver_bash (⭐265) - Semantic Versioning in Bash.
- shellcheck (⭐38k) - A static analysis tool for shell scripts.
- shfmt (⭐8k) - Format bash programs.
- shunit2 (⭐1.7k) - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
- DevOps-Bash-tools (⭐7.1k) - 750+ DevOps Shell Scripts and Advanced Bash environment.
- modernish (⭐922) - Library with various features for shell scripting.
Just for fun
- pokeget (⭐46) - Displays sprites of pokemon in the terminal.
Community
- 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.
Oct 17, 2023
Books and Resources
- explainshell - A website that breaks down and explains shell (Bash) commands (including their flags and options).
Jul 21, 2023
Command-Line Productivity
- ble.sh (⭐3.5k) - User-friendly and feature rich readline replacement, with syntax highlighting, better command completion, and improved multi-line editing.
Jan 08, 2022
Command-Line Productivity
- bashhub-server (⭐313) - Privately hosted open source bashhub server.
Nov 30, 2021
Command-Line Productivity
- zoxide (⭐29k) - A better way to navigate your filesystem. Written in Rust, cross-shell, and much faster than other autojumpers.
Feb 17, 2020
Books and Resources
- Defensive BASH Programming - Methods to defend your programs from breaking as well as keeping the code tidy and clean.
May 23, 2019
Books and Resources
- Bash FAQ (by Chet Ramey)
- learnyoubash (⭐781) - An interactive workshopper which will teach you how to use the terminal and write your the first Bash script.
Jun 18, 2018
Books and Resources
- Pure Bash Bible (⭐40k) - A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.