bash_utils

Miscellaneous MIT-licensed bash utilities I've collected or written for myself.

Design goals

Bash is not a good choice for writing any substantial piece of software, with very few exceptions. This project targets those exceptions and tries to make them less unwieldy.

Functionality I'm thinking about:

• Environment/library management and debugging
• Tools for making source-able scripts that are easy to reason about
• Interactive-mode convenience functions

Install

Clone this repository to ~/bash_utils:

git clone https://github.com/goodside/bash_utils.git ~/bash_utils

source files

Files in this directory are meant to be included with source $file — not with chmod +x.

• path.bash — convenience functions for manipulating PATH
• bash-preexec.sh — packaged from rcaloras/bash-preexec

Example profile

BASH_UTILS_ROOT="$HOME/bash_utils/"
source $BASH_UTILS_ROOT/path.bash

# [ Existing body of .bash_profile ]

# bash-preexec.sh must be sourced at end of file if required:
source $BASH_UTILS_ROOT/bash-preexec.sh