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Max Shifrin
Max Shifrin

Reputation: 809

Validate bash syntax

I'm looking for a way to validate the syntax of a bash script without executing it.

bash -n only seems to validate base bash syntax, what I am missing is:

  1. function name validations
  2. un-initialized parameter validations

Any ideas on how to achieve that?

I am also missing the validation of the number of parameters a function takes, but that sounds like a very hard thing to do in theory, in bash.

In other words what I'd like to do is pretty much take a bash script and "compile" it like I would compile a c++ program.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 270

Answers (1)

Michelle Welcks
Michelle Welcks

Reputation: 3894

bash -n is certainly the fundamental way to do that.

However there is also a site that will do some validation for you: http://www.shellcheck.net/ --And there is a link on the site to the source code if you want to run it locally.

Upvotes: 3

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