Analyze shell scripts with ShellCheck

ShellCheck is a godsend for people like me who are not Bash/sh experts, but still need to write and maintains scripts of good quality. It analyzes your script against a series of built-in checks and offers suggestions for improving the script.

Here is the best part of using this tool in your daily workflow: I find it to be the most practical way to learn good quality shell programming practices. This is way better than reading the ginormous Bash manual anyday.

Hook this tool to your CI/CD or to your git pre-commit hooks to get scripts in your codebase automatically checked for quality.

• Scripts can be checked online by pasting their contents at shellcheck.net.

• Installing and using it at the shell is easy:

$ sudo apt install shellcheck

$ shellcheck myscript.sh

• The list of checks that the tool uses can be found here. Each check page comes with detailed information of what is wrong in your script, how to fix and why the check exists.

Tried with: ShellCheck 0.4.6 and Ubuntu 18.04