Mods [tools] on-line shell tools (shellcheck / explainshell)

[scary alien]

ShellCheck - Online shell script analyzer:

shellcheck: automatically detects problems with sh/bash scripts and commands

Really cool site!

Just copy and paste your sh or bash shell script code into their window and it will analyze and suggest improvements.

Also, http://explainshell.com/:

explainshell: match command line arguments to their help text

This site contains 29761 parsed manpages from sections 1 and 8 found in Ubuntu's manpage repository. A lot of heuristics were used to extract the arguments of each program, and there are errors here and there, especially in manpages that have a non-standard layout.

Hope you find these useful!

 

[palmtree5]

Interesting!

 

[scary alien]

Added another tool (explainshell.com) to the OP and renamed the thread title to be more general to on-line shell tools.

Thanks!

 

[palmtree5]

Saw the one you added this morning (I think via lifehacker)

 

[scary alien]

Saw the one you added this morning (I think via lifehacker)

A co-worker of mine pointed it out...he must follow lifehacker (pretty sure that's where he saw it, too).

 

[palmtree5]

ExplainShell Breaks Down Long, Confusing Linux Commands