dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
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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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…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 -
…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 -
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) -
> 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 -
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 -
…//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 -
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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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 -
Another great reference is https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
comment by zimbatm · 2020-02-21 · in The Bash Hackers Wiki -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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