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Aug 18 - Aug 24, 2025

Command-Line Productivity

• bashmount (⭐252) - Easily manage removable media.

Jul 28 - Aug 03, 2025

Shell Script Development

• timep (⭐114) - A next-gen profiler and FlameGraph generator for bash code.

Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2024

Customization

• oh-my-bash (⭐6.8k) - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your bash configuration.

Shell Script Development

• lobash (⭐388) - A modern, safe, powerful utility/library for Bash script development.

Jul 22 - Jul 28, 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 01 - Jul 07, 2024

Shell Script Development

• json.bash (⭐453) - Bash library and command-line tool that creates JSON.

May 27 - Jun 02, 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 05 - Feb 11, 2024

Books and Resources

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

Jan 01 - Jan 07, 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 - Dec 24, 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 13 - Nov 19, 2023

Downloading and Serving

• sherver (⭐345) - Pure Bash lightweight web server.

Oct 23 - Oct 29, 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) - has helps 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 16 - Oct 22, 2023

Books and Resources

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

Jul 17 - Jul 23, 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 03 - Jan 09, 2022

Command-Line Productivity

• bashhub-server (⭐313) - Privately hosted open source bashhub server.

Nov 29 - Dec 05, 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 24 - Mar 01, 2020

Books and Resources

• Defensive BASH Programming - Methods to defend your programs from breaking as well as keeping the code tidy and clean.

May 27 - Jun 02, 2019

Books and Resources

• Bash FAQ (by Chet Ramey)

• Bash Programming - Intro/How-to

• WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting

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

• learnyoubash (⭐781) - An interactive workshopper which will teach you how to use the terminal and write your the first Bash script.

Jun 18 - Jun 24, 2018

Books and Resources

• Pure Bash Bible (⭐40k) - A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.