shellfire
A modular framework for building robust, portable applications in POSIX-compliant shell script.
What is shellfire?
Shellfire is a modular framework for building applications in POSIX-compliant shell script. It abstracts away differences between shell interpreters like bash, dash, and ksh, and provides reusable libraries for tasks like JSON/XML parsing, secure HTTP requests, and dependency management. It solves the pain of writing portable, robust shell scripts that work across Linux, macOS, BSD, and other Unix-like systems.
System administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers who need to write portable, maintainable shell scripts for automation, bootstrapping, or embedded environments. It's especially useful for those working in constrained environments where installing Python/Ruby/Perl is impractical.
Developers choose Shellfire because it provides a comprehensive, batteries-included toolkit for shell scripting without external runtime dependencies. Its modular design promotes code reuse, cross-shell compatibility ensures portability, and features like secure curl wrappers and structured data parsers address common shell scripting pitfalls.
Overview
A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries. Takes aware the pain of shell scripting, making it robust and reusable. Includes secure curl usage, JSON, XML and Debian control file parsers, dependency documentation via attributes, and more. Batteries ARE included.
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