Tools for bash development

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There are a few tools that are an absolute must for writing decent code. Keep these close.

ShellCheck
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ShellCheck is a tool written in haskell and available through most package managers. You use it as you would use most linters:

shellcheck shellscript.sh

shfmt formats shell programs. This helps keeping your code uniform in the same format.

My usual use:

shfmt -i 2 -w scripts.sh

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