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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThis seems like a good time to mention my (ridiculous) project, a ctypes module for bash. https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki There are some little demos here: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/tree/master/test I even ported the GTK+3 Hello World to bash as a demo: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/blob/master/test/gtk.sh
I like bash, zsh and other shell languages as well. However, unless you're really experienced, they shouldn't be the product you ship, whether that is internally or externally to you or your company. Shell languages is the final layer of configuration and customization you apply to the setup, it should almost never be the foundation of what you build. Especially for a company, unless you've got really, really skilled engineers on the scripts, it becomes a complete mess. And even…
This is something I've put together over the past couple of days. It's still a work in progress but I'm posting it here to get some critique and hopefully some contributions. I'd love to see what others come up with. If you'd like to contribute take a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md file. https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible/blob/master/CO...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1260
- Total comments
- 446
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-15 | Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes | 2211 | 4 | 1 |
| 2018-06-16 | Pure bash bible: collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes | ingve | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-06-17 | A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes | axiomdata316 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-06-17 | A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes | merqurio | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-06-19 | Pure bash alternatives to external processes | jijojv | 4 | 0 |
| 2018-06-24 | Pure Bash Bible | disposedtrolley | 5 | 0 |
| 2019-09-19 | Pure Bash BibleFirst breakout · Best thread | ausjke | 746 | 248 |
| 2021-12-08 | Pure Bash Bible (2019) | gautamsomani | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-02-16 | Pure Bash Bible – A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processesHall induction | rrampage | 291 | 96 |
| 2023-08-09 | Pure Bash BibleLatest 20+ point return | softwaredoug | 191 | 101 |
| 2025-03-23 | Pure Bash Bible: a collection of pure Bash alternatives to external processes | namanyayg | 7 | 0 |
| 2025-07-09 | Pure-bash-Bible: A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes | thunderbong | 4 | 0 |