Shell Standard Library

Supported bash versions currently include the following though not all functions will be supported on all versions.

• 3.2.57
• 4.0.44
• 4.1.17
• 4.2.53
• 4.3.48
• 4.4.23
• 5.0-beta

Support for bash 3.1 has bene deprecated.

For an example of how to install/import see:

import_install_example.sh

Variables/Options which can be set/exported to change the behaviour of the library and various functions during execution.

• interactive - true/false - en/dis-ables interactive promps and features requiring a TTY/PTY
• strict_mode - true/false - en/dis-ables shell options to stop and/or exit on errors and undefined variables
• verbosity - 0-10 - Sets the verbosity for debug logging, default 0

For testing bash code across multiple versions of bash we highly recommend using the bashtester submodule, you can pull it with this repository by using:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/sdelements/shtdlib.git

Or if you've already cloned this project you can initialize and pull using:

git submodule init
git submodule update --recursive

• all supported versions (using docker containers)

  source shtdlib.sh && test_shtdlib

• local bash only, no containers

  source shtdlib.sh && test_shtdlib local

• specific bash version(s) and/or local

  source shtdlib.sh && test_shtdlib 3.2.57 4.4.23 local