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Life & fun · July 19, 2016

A shell/bash parser and formatter in Go

A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt - mvdan/sh

A shell/bash parser and formatter in Go launched on July 19, 2016 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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