Why developers like GNU Bash

What is GNU Bash?

The Bourne Again SHell is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.

GNU Bash is a tool in the Shells category of a tech stack.

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Who uses GNU Bash?

Companies

210 companies reportedly use GNU Bash in their tech stacks, including E-Commerce, Craftbase, and Foretag.

E-Commerce

Craftbase

Foretag

InfuseAI

Modanisa.com

RoofStacks

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WebApp

Developers

1068 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GNU Bash.

Personal preferences

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Personal stack

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GNU Bash Integrations

Codecov, Homebrew, AWK, iTerm2, and Zsh (Z shell) are some of the popular tools that integrate with GNU Bash. Here's a list of all 19 tools that integrate with GNU Bash.

Codecov

Homebrew

AWK

iTerm2

Zsh (Z shell)

Alfred

Windows Terminal

Hyper Terminal

Stan

Pros of GNU Bash

Customizable

Powerful scripting language

Widely adopted

Cross platform

Decisions about GNU Bash

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose GNU Bash in their tech stack.

Prakhar Vatsa

Mar 21, 2022 | 5 upvotes · 34.9K views

Needs advice

GNU Bash

PowerShell

and

Zsh (Z shell)

Out of curiosity, when my coding instructor for Python did some commands on his computer, he told me learning any sort of terminal command interface (e.g. GNU Bash, PowerShell, Zsh ) will make me understand systems and how computers work and would make me know the basics of systems programming (although I am more into web development). I immediately went curious, out of my time, and looked up some command line interfaces to learn. It gave me bash, shell, zsh, powershell, etc. All these are really confusing, and they all seem the same. I want to be a terminal dweller, so which of the terminal related things should I learn? I think Bash, since it can replace Powershell on Windows, and has all the Linux/macOS systems.

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GNU Bash's Features

Command line editing
Unlimited size command history
Job Control
Shell Functions and Aliases
Indexed arrays of unlimited size
Integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four

GNU Bash Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to GNU Bash?

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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