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📖 A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.

29 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 12 stories, 17 comments · first 2018-06-15 · latest 2025-07-09

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    Pure-bash-Bible: A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes
    story by thunderbong · 2025-07-09 · 0 comments
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    Pure Bash Bible: a collection of pure Bash alternatives to external processes
    story by namanyayg · 2025-03-23 · 0 comments
  3. …whenever I forget the syntax to something, or know there must be a better way than what I am doing. https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
    comment by happymellon · 2023-11-08 · in The bash book to rule them all
  4. …URLs for further investigation. One that looks really good is Dylan Araps' "Pure Bash Bible" ( See https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible ) Confession: I found a PDF copy at Libgen, but don't tell anyone. This and the Shotts book…
    comment by dxs · 2023-09-23 · in Ask HN: How does one practice day to day shell scripting
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    Pure Bash Bible (2018)
    story by softwaredoug · 2023-08-09 · 101 comments
  6. Also incredibly cool project from the author is the Pure Bash Bible: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible .
    comment by pkrumins · 2022-05-09 · in Kiss Linux (2020)
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    Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes
    story by rrampage · 2022-02-16 · 96 comments
  8. > https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible Interesting, although on a quick skimming most of the functions listed there are wrappers over... printf?
    comment by darkwater · 2022-02-16 · in Bash Pitfalls
  9. nice thanks for sharing! https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible >The goal of this book is to document commonly-known and lesser-known methods of doing various tasks using only built-in bash features. Using the snippets from this…
    comment by cybarDOTlive · 2022-02-16 · in Bash Pitfalls
  10. …//github.com/retrohacker/irc-sh/blob/master/main.sh To learn bash: * https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ * https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
    comment by r3trohack3r · 2022-02-16 · in My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash
  11. There's also these resources for more vetted patterns: (1) Bash: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible (2) POSIX Shell: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible
    comment by tsujp · 2022-01-05 · in Practical Shell Patterns I Use
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    Pure Bash Bible (2019)
    story by gautamsomani · 2021-12-08 · 0 comments
  13. …of echo makes your scripts 1000x cooler :) 0. https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible 1. https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
    comment by reayn · 2021-11-27 · in Shell [Scripting] Style Guide
  14. they also have a pure bash bible: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
    comment by senorsmile · 2020-10-21 · in Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes
  15. …goal of Oil is to provide an alternative to extremely tortured string transformation syntax like: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible And Oil has the eggex language, that compiles to egrep syntax, and uses libc's engine. But it…
    comment by chubot · 2020-06-30 · in ReDoS: Regular Expression Denial of Service
  16. While you're at it, for a similar resource check out: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible and https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible I believe they've been posted here previously.
    comment by 0xdeadb00f · 2020-04-17 · in Bash FAQ
  17. Another great reference is https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
    comment by zimbatm · 2020-02-21 · in The Bash Hackers Wiki
  18. …also the "pure bash bible", which is a collection of pure-Bash alternatives to several commands: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
    comment by b215826 · 2019-11-10 · in Bash-lib: Library for bash utility methods and tools
  19. …occasionally, this was useful. In particular the "obsolete syntax" section, I wasn't aware of it. https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible#obsolete-synta...
    comment by thih9 · 2019-09-19 · in Pure Bash Bible
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    Pure Bash Bible
    story by ausjke · 2019-09-19 · 248 comments
  21. …Use Bash built-ins Stop invoking external processes for features already available in Bash: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible More good resources: * http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ * https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/ba…
    comment by jasonpeacock · 2019-02-21 · in Testing Bash with BATS
  22. …end. I would be more a fan of something along the lines of 'readable-POSIX-shell-bible' ;-) [1]: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
    comment by arendtio · 2019-01-22 · in For the Love of Pipes
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    story by ingve · 2018-06-16 · 0 comments
  28. …see what others come up with. If you'd like to contribute take a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md file. https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible/blob/master/CO...
    comment by 2211 · 2018-06-15 · in Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes
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    Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes
    story by 2211 · 2018-06-15 · 1 comment