Is there a standard library for Bash?

Is there a standard library for Bash?开发者_开发问答 something like Java standard library.

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No, I don't think there are 'standard libraries' such as STL. There are various files that you can include. For example:

• there are bash libraries to enable command-line completion for clear-case, git, etc
• there is /etc/init.d/functions which intended for use in /etc/init.d scripts (implementing services)
• There is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions for use by scripts that are invoked when network interfaces (or whole network subsystem) change state.
• there are modules in /etc/profile.d that are automatically included for use by interactive shells

But I don't think that there are libraries implementing containers, iterators etc.

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You can try these 2 GitHub repoes, although they are not standard library, but it might be a good start.

xsh: a bash library framework.

xsh-lib/core: the core library of xsh.