Is shellcheck still maintained?

Is it free?: YesOpen source (GPL-3.0).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 3 days ago. Latest release v0.11.0, 1.3 years ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used40k stars, 13 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 40,322
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Will it work on Windows?

No Windows version

Apps are only published for macOS and Linux.

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Start here

Website ↗shellcheck.netThe project's own site.

Run it with Docker

A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.

Docker

docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/mnt" koalaman/shellcheck:stable myscript

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Details

License: GPL-3.0
Open issues: 1,076
Branch: master

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.github/workflows/build.yml

.github/workflows/distrotest.yaml

README.md

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