Bash - Programming language

Bash is an open source programming language created in 1989 by Brian Fox.

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Bash is a Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell. First released in 1989, it has been distributed widely as the default login shell for most Linux distributions and Apple's macOS (formerly OS X). A version is also available for Windows 10. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 1,579,442 Bash repos on GitHub
Early development of Bash happened in GNU Project
Bash is written in C, Bourne shell, M4, Bash, HTML, Make, Yacc, Perl, Assembly language, sed, Tex, Markdown, awk
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 358k users using Bash in 640k repos on GitHub
There are 54,171 members in the Bash subreddit
In the 2021 StackOverflow developer survey Bash programmers reported a median salary of $71,340. 27% of respondents reported using Bash. 22,385 programmers reported using Bash, and 14,043 said they wanted to use it
Bash on HOPL
Bash appears in the TIOBE Index
Bash Ubuntu package
Bash LSP implementation
Monaco package for syntax highlighting Bash
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Bash
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Bash
Bash appears in the Quine Relay project
Learn Bash on exercism.
There is 1 Jupyter Kernel for Bash
There is a central package repository for Bash
Indeed.com has 4,774 matches for "bash developer".
See also: (12 related languages) C, Gettext Catalog, Bourne shell, LOGIN, Linux, Almquist shell, Android, Regular Expressions, Perl, awk, Unix, Emacs
220 PLDB concepts link to Bash: Armed Bear Common Lisp, Amber, Apache Hbase, ArkScript, Apache Arrow, Avail, awl, Ballerina, Bash, Bazel, BeBasic, Blacklight, blz, bpkg-pm, Bucardo, Bython, Caramel, Ceylon, Chapel, Civet, Common Lisp with Arc Macros and Procedures, clash, cloc, ClojureScript, codecept, Coq, Cortex, cosh, CouchDB, crmsh, Cryptol, Crystal, CSpydr, cuneiform, Dafny, datafun, dex, dgraph, dllup, DRAKON, dreamlisp, dub-pm, Embedded Crystal, Eiffel, elegance, ELENA, ELFE, Emscripten, Encore, Enso, erg, Erlang, F Prime, Fardlang, fay, Felix, firrtl, fleck, Flow, Flow9, flownote, fp, F*, Gforth, GHC, Git, Go, Gun, gura, Gwion, Halide, hamdown, HAML, harlan, Hera, HHVM, highlight.js, Hjson, Homa, Homebrew, Horse64, huginn, hurl, Idio, Idris, Impala, invokator, Ioke, Iterm2, JAL compiler, Jank, jasmine, Java, Jedi, Jekyll, Jelly, Jemplate, JFlex, jq, JSONScript, Jsonnet, jsparagus, k-framework, KamilaLisp, Kefir, Kotlin, Kubernetes, l2, Ladybird, lambda-zero, lamdu-editor, Lamdu, latino, Lean, LinearML, Links, Linux, LiteScript, little, lobster, Luna, m3db, mal, manool, Mastodon, MathJSON, mermaid, mgmt, MiniZinc, Mirah, MongoDB, MonkeyX, Mu, mun-lang, Nadesiko, NetLogo, Nextflow, nianiolang, Nim, Nit, Node.js, Not Quite C, Obsidian, ohm, oil, ooc, Opa, Opal, opam-pm, OpenNN, Open Shading Language, OpenCV, Openverse, Oxyl, Pan, Pandas, PHP, Pomsky, Pony, popr, PostgreSQL, preforth, Prism, Pygments, Python, PyTorch, Racket, ramen, Reason, Redis, reflex-framework, Revolution, Rholang, Riff, rosie, Ruby, Rust, Rye, Scikit-learn, score, sentient, setlx, Simple Binary Encoding, skip, skulpt, Slash, Slony, Smali, Semantic Patch Language, Spatial, SQRL, stoneknifeforth, sugartex, SWI Prolog, Swift, tao3d, TensorFlow, TestML, Textadept, tibet, tiledb, U, ultralisp-pm, Uno, V, v8, Vale, Vcpkg, Virgil, Vue, vyper, Wart, Wasp, Wonkey, Wyvern, Xidoc, XL, xxl, Zephir, zlang

Example from Riju:

echo "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello World"

Example from Linguist:

#!/bin/sh
echo "sh"

Example from Wikipedia:

cd "$SOMEWHERE" && ./do_something || echo "An error occurred" >&2

Bash Keywords

if then do else elif while until for in esac fi fin fil done exit set unset export function

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Standard Library	✓	echo "Hello, World!"
Conditionals	✓
Functions	✓
While Loops	✓
File Imports	✓	source ./bash.sh
Assignment	✓	FOO="bar"	=
Print() Debugging	✓	echo "Hello World"	echo
Pipes	✓	echo "Hello world" > output.txt
Here Document	✓	cat <
Integers	✓	PLDB=80766866
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Comments	✓	# A comment
Variable Substitution Syntax	✓	STR="Hello World!" echo $STR
Sets	X
MultiLine Comments	X
Semantic Indentation	X
Units of Measure	X