Full Featured IDE For Bash Scripting

Introduction

I’ve had a few colleagues ask me how I have a full featured Bash IDE for courses I have developed; So I thought i’d make a post to show people how to do it.

Features

• Full Bash Debugging (Built into the IDE)

  

• Linting

  

• Command Suggestions

  

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Requirements

1. Ubuntu 18.04 +
2. Snap
3. VSCode V 1.4.5+ standard vscode version on snap store (See Issue 133 under bash-debug)

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Instructions

• Open your Extentions in vscode and search for bash

  

• Select Bash debug, then select install

  • Open your debug tab, and select create a launch.json file

    

  • Select Bash Debug

    

  • Customise your launch.jsonfile and add a comma to the end of line 11 (Program line) and create a new line with "terminalKind": "Integrated"

    

    • this will enable you to use stdin on the integrated vscode terminal

• Select Bash IDE, then select install

• Install the shellcheck ubuntu package (Pre-Requisite for vscode extension)

  • sudo apt install shellcheck

• Search for Shellcheck, select it, then select install

  • Once shell check is installed click on the settings cog, and select extension settings

    

  • Enable the quick fix feature

    

• Your good to go :-) happy scripting

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