PKpkrumins·May 9, 2022
Also incredibly cool project from the author is the Pure Bash Bible: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible.
In Kiss Linux (2020)dylanaraps
pure-bash-bible
Shell2018–2025
dylanaraps / pure-bash-bible · Archived
pure-bash-bible
📖 A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.
28Distinct people
29Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
41.7KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
📖 A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
- dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible · linked in 3 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:03:30 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year29 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2018-06-15 12:03:30 UTC to 2025-07-09 19:07:57 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesPure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes
291 points · Open discussion> https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
Interesting, although on a quick skimming most of the functions listed there are wrappers over... printf?
In Bash Pitfallsnice thanks for sharing!
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
>The goal of this book is to document commonly-known and lesser-known methods of doing various tasks using only built-in bash features. Using the snippets from this bible can help remove unneeded dependencies from scripts and in most cases make them faster.
In Bash PitfallsFor a pretty good example of a readable/fun program written in bash, the KISS package manager stands out: https://github.com/kisslinux/kiss/blob/master/kiss
Neofetch is also written in bash: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/blob/master/neofetch
For my own work, I once wrote a functional file system based irc client in ~50 lines of bash: https://github.com/retrohacker/irc-sh/blob/master/main.sh
To learn bash:
* https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
* https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
In My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch in BashThere's also these resources for more vetted patterns:
(1) Bash: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible
(2) POSIX Shell: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible
In Practical Shell Patterns I Use