shellcheck

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A shell script static analysis tool

ShellCheck is a GPLv3 tool that gives warnings and suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts.

The goals of ShellCheck are

  • To point out and clarify typical beginner's syntax issues that cause a shell to give cryptic error messages.

  • To point out and clarify typical intermediate level semantic problems that cause a shell to behave strangely and counter-intuitively.

  • To point out subtle caveats, corner cases and pitfalls that may cause an advanced user's otherwise working script to fail under future circumstances.

By default ShellCheck can only check non-hidden files under /home, to make ShellCheck be able to check files under /media and /run/media you must connect it to the removable-media interface manually:

 # snap connect shellcheck:removable-media

Details for shellcheck

License
  • GPL-3.0+

Last updated
  • 8 March 2024 - latest/stable
  • 30 November 2024 - latest/edge

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