Bash

Learning resources

Official documentation

• Bash Reference Manual

• Bash FAQ

• Official latest version for GNU Readline Library

• Official latest version for GNU History Library

• Debian manpage for Bash

• man -a intro

• Bash development follow-up: devel branch

• GNU Bash mailing-list archives

History of shells

• https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/heroes-in-a-bash-shell

• https://opensource.com/19/9/command-line-heroes-bash

• https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-linux-shells/

• Interview with Chet Ramey, current Bash maintainer

Community/User built documentation

• http://mywiki.wooledge.org/

• http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

• http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashSheet

• http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

• http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/start

• Google Shell Style Guide

• Introduction to Advanced Usage of GNU Bash: pdf slides

Community built tools

Bash code linting

• Shellcheck : lint tool for shell scripts

Bash code testing

• BATS : Bash Unit Testing with Bash Automated Testing System

Other resources

Pitfalls in Bash

• Pitfalls in Bash

Bash cheatsheet

• Bash cheatsheet

Solutions to common problems

Building my own library with my user-defined functions

• Build your own Bash functions library

Handling command line arguments in Bash

• Handling command line arguments in Bash

Strings operations in Bash

• Strings operations in Bash

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