Bill
Bill strives to be a solution for developing applications which can be run on platforms with limited resources (e.g. embedded systems) on top of the GNU Bash shell, with a focus on quality and reusability of shell code.
It does so by providing module system with its standard library, which you can leverage in your own scripts, both by using existing modules and splitting your program in reusable components.
Additionally, tools for documenting and testing modules, and serving web applications are provided as part of the package.
It has the next main features:
- Ability of running on small, embedded systems with scarce resources.
- Bash as the only dependency. Choose one of netpipes, ipsvd or ucspi-tcp for TCP sockets support.
- Module system for shell code.
- Standard library (batteries included!)
- Billets container.
- Creation of standalone scripts.
- Tools for documentation generation.
- Tools for writing unit tests.
Updates
Successful upgrade to Bash 4
Yesterday my package manager insisted in updating Bash to version 4, which was released some time ago. I was a bit worried because as this new version intruduced new features, just in casethey could cause some of my working scripts to fail miserably. The...
Some news, including Bill 0.2 release
Time has passed since the latest time I blogged about something, and some things have happened, so I think it is a good occasion to write some words. The first news is that I have just released Bill 0.2, which introduces the following changes: Change...
Bash 4.0 is out!
Some of you maybe already know about the news, but GNU Bash 4.0 was released a while ago. There are some interesting good news in this release. For example, now Bash ships with support for associative arrays (hashes) out-of-the-shell. This will make some...
Bill 0.1-2 released
I have just relased version 0.1-2 of Bill, your favourite accompaniment for your shell-code meals. Albeit I have plans for an upcoming 0.2 which will break some backwards compatibility, this is a just a mainteinance release which introduces some bugfixes....
Using boolean variables in Bash
Today I stumbled upon a weblog post by Mark Dominus on a “novel” way of using flag variables in shell code, mainly because I have been using that technique since my early days of shell programming. Let me introduce the syntax: the_world_is_flat=true #...
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Commits
Adrian Perez de Castro pushed 2 commits to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed 2 commits to bill/mainline:master
master changed from ad911a7 to fe6f49d
Adrián Pérez24/08/2011
Adrian Perez de Castro pushed 1 commit to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed 1 commit to bill/mainline:master
master changed from ec66b5a to ad911a7
Adrián Pérez24/08/2011
Adrian Perez de Castro pushed ec66b5a7 to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed ec66b5a7 to bill/mainline:master
Adrian Perez de Castro ec66b5a: Add missing word in coding style doc
Adrián Pérez18/03/2010
Adrian Perez de Castro pushed c690d7ad to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed c690d7ad to bill/mainline:master
Adrian Perez de Castro c690d7a: Proper warning about ucspi-tcp not found
Adrián Pérez09/03/2010
Adrian Perez de Castro pushed f162f269 to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed f162f269 to bill/mainline:master
Adrian Perez de Castro f162f26: Added link to news/blogposts in front page
Adrián Pérez06/11/2009
Adrian Perez de Castro pushed 2 commits to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed 2 commits to bill/mainline:master master changed from ad911a7 to fe6f49d
Adrián Pérez24/08/2011Adrian Perez de Castro pushed 1 commit to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed 1 commit to bill/mainline:master master changed from ec66b5a to ad911a7
Adrián Pérez24/08/2011Adrian Perez de Castro pushed ec66b5a7 to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed ec66b5a7 to bill/mainline:master Adrian Perez de Castro ec66b5a: Add missing word in coding style doc
Adrián Pérez18/03/2010Adrian Perez de Castro pushed c690d7ad to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed c690d7ad to bill/mainline:master Adrian Perez de Castro c690d7a: Proper warning about ucspi-tcp not found
Adrián Pérez09/03/2010Adrian Perez de Castro pushed f162f269 to bill/mainline:master
aperez pushed f162f269 to bill/mainline:master Adrian Perez de Castro f162f26: Added link to news/blogposts in front page
Adrián Pérez06/11/2009