Asides

Bash Secrets I Learned From 10 Years of Production Hell
Three months ago, a single bash script I wrote processed 50,000 server deployments without a single failure. Two years ago, my scripts were breaking production every other week. Here’s what changed.
—
https://medium.com/@heinancabouly/bash-secrets-i-learned-from-10-years-of-production-hell-93fe1dbff12a

muthuishere/mcp-server-bash-sdk
Why? Most MCP servers are just API wrappers with schema conversion. This implementation provides a zero-overhead alternative to Node.js, Python, or other heavy runtimes. For AI assistants and local tool execution, these aren’t blocking issues.
—
https://github.com/muthuishere/mcp-server-bash-sdk

javanile/mush

Mush is the shell package builder. Mush downloads your shell package’s dependencies, compiles your packages, makes distributable packages, and uploads them to GitHub, as public community’s package registry.

—
https://github.com/javanile/mush

jazz-it/dline
dLine is a versatile command-line tool that presents important data in the form of a calendar directly within your terminal. It monitors critical dates, simplifies event addition via APIs, and calculates timespans for various event types.
—
https://github.com/jazz-it/dline

dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
NEW: pure sh bible (📖 A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes). The goal of this book is to document commonly-known and lesser-known methods of doing various tasks using only built-in bash features.
—
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, yet progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little nuggets of UNIX® wisdom and lore.
—
https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

How to Setup QEMU Output to Console and Automate Using Shell Script
While struggling to automate QEMU guest (communicate and control with the shell scripts), I faced a lot of incomplete, partially working solutions around the Internet.
—
https://fadeevab.com/how-to-setup-qemu-output-to-console-and-automate-using-shell-script/

Collections of very useful Bash Functions
I use Bash a lot working with applications, systems, containers or networks, mgmt & integration.

I’ve found and frequently use a few *really usef
—
https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/s/1EtySXZjkc

Hold a Healthy Sense of Caution Whenever Running a curl|bash Command
If you’re anything like me, it took a long time (maybe years) to even ask what that sort of command is even doing. It’s not much: curl retrieves a response and immediately feeds it to bash to execute on your machine. It’s simple, flexible, and powerful.
—
https://macarthur.me/posts/curl-to-bash/

antonrotar/command_runner
This is a small bash library called command_runner. It can run a list of commands in a script and report the results. In comparison to using a plain bash script you have a better control over execution and printing.
—
https://github.com/antonrotar/command_runner