Installation

Although there's no Bash script dependency manager like npm for JavaScript, Maven for Java, pip for Python, or composer for PHP; you can add bashunit as a dependency in your repository according to your preferences.

Here, we provide different options that you can use to install bashunit in your application.

Requirements

bashunit requires Bash 3.2 or newer.

install.sh

There is a tool that will generate an executable with the whole library in a single file:

Linux/Mac

curl -s https://bashunit.typeddevs.com/install.sh | bash

Windows

# IMPORTANT: You need WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to run bashunit
#
# Step 1: Install WSL if you haven't already
#   - Open PowerShell as Administrator
#   - Run: wsl --install
#   - Restart your computer
#
# Step 2: Open your WSL terminal and run:
curl -s https://bashunit.typeddevs.com/install.sh | bash

This will create a file inside a lib folder, such as lib/bashunit.

Verify

# Verify the sha256sum for latest stable: 0.26.0
DIR="lib"; KNOWN_HASH="7ff253ec2cb665d560fd92d314687f0d6a256f9f9f13c57b3c4747d056e659af"; FILE="$DIR/bashunit"; [ "$(shasum -a 256 "$FILE" | awk '{ print $1 }')" = "$KNOWN_HASH" ] && echo -e "✓ \033[1mbashunit\033[0m verified." || { echo -e "✗ \033[1mbashunit\033[0m corrupt"; rm "$FILE"; }

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You can find the checksum for each version inside GitHub's releases. E.g.:

https://github.com/TypedDevs/bashunit/releases/download/0.26.0/checksum

Define custom tag and folder

The installation script can receive arguments (in any order):

Linux/Mac

curl -s https://bashunit.typeddevs.com/install.sh | bash -s [dir] [version]

Windows

# IMPORTANT: You need WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to run bashunit
#
# Step 1: Install WSL if you haven't already
#   - Open PowerShell as Administrator
#   - Run: wsl --install
#   - Restart your computer
#
# Step 2: Open your WSL terminal and run:
curl -s https://bashunit.typeddevs.com/install.sh | bash -s [dir] [version]

• [dir]: the destiny directory to save the executable bashunit; lib by default
• [version]: the release to download, for instance 0.26.0; latest by default.

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You can use beta as [version] to get the next non-stable preview release. We try to keep it stable, but there is no promise that we won't change functions or their signatures without prior notice.

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Committing (or not) this file to your project it's up to you. In the end, it is a dev dependency.

bashdep

You can manage your dependencies using bashdep, a simple dependency manager for bash.

Linux/Mac - install-dependencies.sh

# Ensure bashdep is installed
[ ! -f lib/bashdep ] && {
  mkdir -p lib
  curl -sLo lib/bashdep \
    https://github.com/Chemaclass/bashdep/releases/download/0.1/bashdep
  chmod +x lib/bashdep
}

# Add latest bashunit release to your dependencies
DEPENDENCIES=(
  "https://github.com/TypedDevs/bashunit/releases/download/0.26.0/bashunit"
)

# Load, configure and run bashdep
source lib/bashdep
bashdep::setup dir="lib" silent=false
bashdep::install "${DEPENDENCIES[@]}"

Windows - install-dependencies.sh

# IMPORTANT: You need WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to run bashunit
#
# Step 1: Install WSL if you haven't already
#   - Open PowerShell as Administrator
#   - Run: wsl --install
#   - Restart your computer
#
# Step 2: Open your WSL terminal and run:

# Ensure bashdep is installed
[ ! -f lib/bashdep ] && {
  mkdir -p lib
  curl -sLo lib/bashdep \
    https://github.com/Chemaclass/bashdep/releases/download/0.1/bashdep
  chmod +x lib/bashdep
}

# Add latest bashunit release to your dependencies
DEPENDENCIES=(
  "https://github.com/TypedDevs/bashunit/releases/download/0.26.0/bashunit"
)

# Load, configure and run bashdep
source lib/bashdep
bashdep::setup dir="lib" silent=false
bashdep::install "${DEPENDENCIES[@]}"

Output

Downloading 'bashunit' to 'lib'...
> bashunit installed successfully in 'lib'

Brew

You can install bashunit globally on macOS or Linux using brew.

brew install bashunit

MacPorts

On macOS, you can also install bashunit via MacPorts:

sudo port install bashunit

GitHub Actions

# example: .github/workflows/bashunit-tests.yml
name: Tests

on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  tests:
    name: "Run tests"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: "Install bashunit"
        run: |
          curl -s https://bashunit.typeddevs.com/install.sh > install.sh
          chmod +x install.sh
          ./install.sh

      - name: "Test"
        run: "./lib/bashunit tests"

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Get inspiration from the pipelines running on the bashunit-project itself: https://github.com/TypedDevs/bashunit/blob/main/.github/workflows/tests.yml