bash-it
by Bash-it
Bash-it is a community framework that organises your Bash shell settings into reusable aliases, completions, plugins and prompt themes. It is for people who spend time in the terminal and want a tidier, more convenient command line.
Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).
- Stars
- 15.3k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Shell
- Age
- 5875 days
What you can do with it
- Switch on ready-made aliases and tab completions for common tools
- Change the look of your terminal prompt with themes
- Enable or disable plugins to tailor your shell setup
Ways a business could use it
- Give a small dev team a consistent shell setup with shared aliases to save time on repetitive commands
- Speed up server administration and scripting work as a freelancer with handy completions and shortcuts
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
No README was supplied, but it is typically installed by cloning the repository and running its install script in a Bash shell.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- No README was available, so details of installation and use are unconfirmed
- Modifies your shell startup files, so back them up first
Checked 03 Nov 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
