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• IRC: #vbl, channel on the Freenode network
• Mailing list: [email protected], subscribe

This Bash library aims to minimize the complexity of Bash programming by abstracting special cases, tricky syntax, and commonly used operations behind functions with a clear interface and intuitive behavior. All modules can be safely embedded in other's code as all internal names are namespaced by a unique prefix per each module.

Bash is a powerful programming language and very useful for operational tasks. Without any doubts, this is the first "tool" for any system administrators of Unix-like OS's. Although, non-trivial tasks require non-trivial knowledge, and sometimes it needs more attention on a language specifics than on solving a task itself. Unfortunately, Bash doesn't have some sort of a "Standard library" with all that functions which make a development process easier, faster and more efficient in all senses.

Suddenly, I realized that I constantly use the same functions, same blocks of code everywhere, and as copy-pasting them from one script to another is not the right approach, I decided to organize the most used functions in a modules under one library and place them on a publicly available resource over http. This makes possible to download them using simple tools or even a pure Bash, always have the latest version of each module or even get stuck to a specific version if a reproducibility is needed.

• sys
• str
• exec
• matrix

All existing releases including archives are available on the Github. Releases are always linked to stable versions. There are also two version files available:

• latest.lst, for modules located at http://vbl.vorakl.com/latest/
• stable.lst for modules located at http://vbl.vorakl.com/stable/

Versions from stable.lst allow you to stick to them in the future by addressing modules at http://vbl.vorakl.com/v?.?.?/ location.

• Get started
• Examples
• Installation
• Configuration