Awesome Bash

A curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.

In addition to this list, you should read the list awesome-shell. It is a curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. You may also want to check awesome-zsh or awesome-fish. If you are looking for more lists, check sindresorhus/awesome.

Contents

Books and Resources
Command-Line Productivity
Customization
Data
For Developers
Downloading and Serving
Applications
Games
Website
Shell Package Management
Shell Script Development
Just for fun
Community
Other Awesome Lists
Contribute
License

Books and Resources

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

Command-Line Productivity

Search, bookmarks, multiplexing, and other tools that make your terminal experience more productive.

aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.
bashhub - Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable :cloud:.
bashhub-server - Privately hosted open source bashhub server.
bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell.
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.
qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh.
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.

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

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.
mysql-colorize - Colorization for mysql comand-line client.
oh-my-git - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.
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.

Data

Tools for working with data.

BigBash - Open-source converter that generates a bash one-liner from an SQL Select query, no database necessary.

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash.
git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.
mkdkr - Make + Docker + Shell = CI Pipeline.

Downloading and Serving

Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.

balls - Bash on Balls.
bashttpd - A web server written in Bash.
sherver - Pure Bash lightweight web server.
httpd.sh - A trivial web server in bash, using ctypes.sh.
Bash-web-server - A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc.
bash-stack - Modern web framework in bash.
Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox.
ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat.
xiringuito - SSH-based VPN for poors.

Applications

Command line-based applications or command line access to existing services.

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.

Games

All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.

bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game.
minesweeper - 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 by @janosgyerik).
commandlinefu - A repository for the most elegant and useful UNIX commands.

Shell Package Management

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations.

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.

Shell Script Development

Tools for writing, improving, or organizing Bash or other shell scripts

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.
mo - Mustache templates in pure bash.
semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash.
shellcheck - A static analysis tool for shell scripts.
shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter.
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.

Just for fun

pokeget - 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.