Hacker News with Generative AI: Bash

Bash-ini-parser: Advanced bash INI parser library (github.com/lsferreira42)
A robust shell script library for parsing and manipulating INI configuration files in Bash.

Bash, Shell Scripting, Configuration Files, Libraries

4 points by lsferreira42 2 days ago | 0 comments

Writing a Bash builtin in C to parse INI configs (mbuki-mvuki.org)
Shell languages such as Bash excel at certain tasks, such as gluing programs together or quickly automating a set of command line steps. In contrast to those strengths, using a Shell to parse an INI config file is a bit like writing a poem in mud, you might succeed, but the result will probably be inscrutable and your swear jar will be full!

Bash, C, INI Files, Programming, Configuration Management

30 points by namanyayg 5 days ago | 3 comments

Pure Bash Bible: a collection of pure Bash alternatives to external processes (github.com/dylanaraps)
📖 A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.

Bash, Command Line, Programming, Open Source, Linux

7 points by namanyayg 11 days ago | 0 comments

EasyBashGUI: Simplified way to code bash made GUI dialogs (github.com/BashGui)
EasyBashGUI is a Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, gum, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X server running or not.

Linux, Bash, GUI, Programming, Open Source

6 points by thunderbong 21 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts (elijahpotter.dev)

Bash, Programming, Show HN

79 points by chilipepperhott 34 days ago | 9 comments

How to add a directory to your PATH (jvns.ca)
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of the steps – a lot of them just said “add this to ~/.bashrc”, but what if you’re not using bash?

Operating Systems, Linux, Bash, Terminal, Environment Variables

38 points by alexchamberlain 38 days ago | 63 comments

How to add a directory to your PATH (jvns.ca)
I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of the steps – a lot of them just said “add this to ~/.bashrc”, but what if you’re not using bash?

Linux, Terminal, Bash, Operating Systems, Programming

19 points by misonic 45 days ago | 17 comments

Eight Obscure Bash Options You Might Want to Know About (zwischenzugs.com)
Some bash options are well known, and well-used. For example, many people put

Bash, Linux, Command Line, Programming

8 points by thunderbong 55 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Interactive jq, but it's a bash script using fzf (github.com)
Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Bash, Data Processing, Software

10 points by thomascountz 62 days ago | 1 comments

Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster (github.com/egurapha)
Shunpo is a minimalist bash tool that tries to make directory navigation in terminal just a little bit faster by providing a simple system to manage bookmarks and jump to directories with only a few keystrokes.

Bash, Terminal, Productivity, Open Source

114 points by thunderbong 66 days ago | 50 comments

Highlighting Parts of Lua as Bash (xnacly.me)

Programming, Bash, Lua

22 points by xnacly 67 days ago | 1 comments

Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables (github.com/yassinebenaid)
Have you ever wished your shell scripts could be faster, more portable, and secure ? Bunster brings this to life by transforming your shell scripts into efficient, standalone binaries that are easy to distribute and deploy across platforms (only unix is supported at the moment).

Bash, Scripting, Programming, Security, Tools

207 points by thunderbong 69 days ago | 82 comments

How to track website analytics using only Nginx and pure bash (sanixdk.xyz)
Hi there, what's up ?

Website Analytics, Nginx, Bash, Web Development, Linux

12 points by sanix-darker 80 days ago | 0 comments

Bash Completion (2023) (erikarow.land)
This week, I’ve been exploring how tab completion works in Bash.

Bash, Linux, Command Line, Shell, Productivity

8 points by wonger_ 83 days ago | 1 comments

Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024) (xeiaso.net)
Hashmaps (associative arrays) are a great way to store a bag of key-value data. At work I was writing something that needed me to spawn a bunch of GPU instances, GPU availability is spread out by region and GPU type. I wanted to store a mapping of GPU kind to region name and for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to do it in bash.

Bash, Programming, Shell Scripting, Data Structures

177 points by stefankuehnel 85 days ago | 133 comments

A Raycaster in Bash (github.com/izabera)

Bash, Raycasting, Open Source, Programming, Software

249 points by izabera 103 days ago | 34 comments

My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010) (might.net)
The hardest part of advising Ph.D. students is teaching them how to write.

PhD, Programming, Bash, Academia, Humor

257 points by vismit2000 111 days ago | 104 comments

Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015) (github.com/p8952)
Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash.

Docker, Bash, Programming, Open Source, Software

398 points by emersonrsantos 130 days ago | 114 comments

TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash (yossarian.net)
I ran across two surprising sources of code execution in bash (and probably other shells) recently.

Bash, Programming, Security, Shells

114 points by nathan_phoenix 132 days ago | 46 comments

TIL: Some surprising code execution sources in bash (yossarian.net)
I ran across two surprising sources of code execution in bash (and probably other shells) recently.

Security, Bash, Shell Scripting

6 points by todsacerdoti 133 days ago | 0 comments

Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (weiyen.net)
Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to look at the list of macOS Bash commands. Here's some commands that I found interesting:

macOS, Command Line, Bash, Utilities

837 points by yen223 148 days ago | 232 comments

PID 1 Bash script for Docker containers explained line by line (sirikon.me)
You wake up one morning, feeling bit spicy, daring to break rules, but you aren't the bravest one in town, so you choose something easy: "Let's break that rule about only running one process in a container".

Docker, Linux, Bash, Containers

7 points by mikecarlton 164 days ago | 0 comments

A bash script to move untracked files out of a checked-out Git repository (github.com/blackbit42)
This is a simple bash script that helps you to quickly, temporarily move untracked files out of a checked-out git repository.

Git, Bash, Version Control, Scripting, Software

9 points by blackbit 181 days ago | 4 comments

A bullet hell game written in bash (twitter.com)

Programming, Bash, Games

104 points by taviso 199 days ago | 12 comments

LLM_transcribe_recording: Bash Helper Using Mlx_whisper (github.com)
A bash wrapper around python's mlx_whisper to leverage the GPU on a mac for transcription

Bash, Audio Transcription, Programming, Machine Learning

39 points by Olshansky 206 days ago | 2 comments

Pong.bash (0x0.st)

Programming, Games, Command Line, Bash

28 points by thunderbong 224 days ago | 6 comments

Bashfuck: Write any bash with only the punctuation characters (github.com/meithecatte)

Bash, Programming, Linux, Creative Projects, Open Source

6 points by obi1kenobi 227 days ago | 0 comments

Metaprogramming in Bash (younglogic.com)

Metaprogramming, Bash, Programming Languages, Linux

23 points by jandeboevrie 231 days ago | 6 comments

Show HN: notesbash – A notes management TUI written in bash (codeberg.org)

Open Source, Tools, Bash

23 points by klimperfix 243 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Autocomplete.sh <Tab> in the shell to trigger LLM based bash_complete (autocomplete.sh)

Shell Scripting, Bash, Autocomplete

11 points by skruzel 243 days ago | 3 comments