Introducing "bd" – A Simple Yet Powerful Bash Autoloader

Hey everyone,

I built a tool called `bd` to help with environment management in Bash. It automatically loads noscripts from multiple, different bash.d directories, making it easier to keep your setups modular and organized.

Unlike /etc/profile.d/, bd dynamically loads environment profiles based on the directory you’re in. This makes it great for keeping project-specific Bash settings with the project itself (e.g., in version control) rather than cluttering your personal .bashrc.

# Why use "bd"?

🔹 Automatic Script Loading – Just drop noscripts into a directory, and bd loads them automatically—no manual sourcing needed.
🔹 No Root Access Needed – Works at the user level, making it useful for project-based configurations.
🔹 Keeps Bash Configs Clean – Reduces .bashrc clutter and makes things more maintainable.
🔹 Easy Environment Switching – The right configurations apply automatically as you move between directories.

The GitHub repo has documentation and examples to get started:

🔗 **GitHub: bash-d/bd**

If you manage Bash noscripts in a similar way, I’d love to hear your thoughts! Try it out and let me know what you think.

TL;DR: bd is a small Bash tool that autoloads noscripts from specified directories, making environment management easier. Check it out!

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New to bash noscripting

Hey guys, i'm pretty new to bash noscripting, so i'm not completely sure if i'm doing things correctly. I just made a bash install noscript to get my preferred arch packages installed automatically (so i dont have to install every single package manually and inevitably forget some)

What im wondering is if my noscript is error prone, it seems to work well when i tested it in a VM, however im still unsure. This is what my noscript looks like, and thanks in advance for the help! Would also be much appreciated if whatever changes i need to make could be explained to me so i know for my future noscripts, thanks again!

\#!/bin/bash



\# Enable error checking for all commands

set -e



\# Install paru if not already installed

if ! command -v paru &> /dev/null; then

echo "Installing paru..."

sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm base-devel git

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git /tmp/paru

(cd /tmp/paru && makepkg -si --noconfirm)

rm -rf /tmp/paru

fi



\# Update the system and install pacman packages

echo "Updating system..."

sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm



\# List of pacman packages

pacman_packages=(

hyprland

kitty

hypridle

hyprlock

hyprpaper

neovim

starship

waybar

wofi

yazi

nautilus

swaync

xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland

hyprpolkitagent

wlsunset

zoxide

zsh

zsh-syntax-highlighting

zsh-autosuggestions

fzf

qt6ct

btop

dbus

stow

flatpak

ttf-cascadia-code

ttf-ubuntu-font-family

ttf-font-awesome

)



echo "Installing pacman packages..."

sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm "${pacman_packages[@\]}"



\# List of AUR packages

aur_packages=(

trash-cli

adwaita-dark

hyprshot

sway-audio-idle-inhibit-git

brave-bin

)



echo "Installing AUR packages..."

paru -S --needed --noconfirm "${aur_packages[@\]}"



\# Set zsh as the default shell

echo "Setting zsh as the default shell..."

chsh -s "$(which zsh)"



echo "Installation complete!"

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Why does glob expansion behave differently when file extensions are different?

I have a program which takes multiple files as command line arguments. These files are contained in a folder "mtx", and they all have ".mtx" extension. I usually call my program from the command line as myprogram mtx/*

Now, I have another folder "roa", which has the same files as "mtx", except that they have ".roa" extension, and for these I call my program with myprogram roa/* .

Since these folders contain the same exact file names except for the extension, I thought thought "mtx/*" and "roa/*" would expand the files in the same order. However, there are some differences in these expansions.

To prove these expansions are different, I created a toy example:

EDIT: Rather than running the code below, this behavior can be demonstrated as follows:

1) Make a directory "A" with subdirectories "mtx" and "roa"

2) In mtx create files called "G3.mtx" and "g3rmt3m3.mtx"

3) in roa, create these same files but with .roa extension.

4) From "A", run "echo mtx/*" and "echo roa/*". These should give different results.

END EDIT

https://github.com/Optimization10/GlobExpansion

The output of this code is two csv files, one with the file names from the "mtx" folder as they are expanded from "mtx/*", and one with file names from the "roa" as expanded from "roa/*".

As you can see in the Google sheet, lines 406 and 407 are interchanged, and lines 541-562 are permuted.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bw3sYcOMg7Nd8HIMmUoxXxWbT2yatsledLeiTEEUDXY/edit?usp=sharing

I am wondering why these expansions are different, and is this a known feature or issue?

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What's a good collection or source of bash noscripts that you can read to sharpen your knowledge of noscripting techniques

Hello my fellow bashelors/bashelorettes . Basically, what the noscript of the post says.

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Can someone explain this to me?

➜  ~ echo ' escaped_input=$(something)' > test.sh

sed -E 's/^(\s)escaped_input=\$\(.*\)$/\1user_input=$(whatever)/' test.sh
sed -iE 's/^(\s)escaped_input=\$\(.*\)$/\1user_input=$(whatever)/' test.sh; cat test.sh

 user_input=$(whatever)
 escaped_input=$(something)

Why does the in-place replacement seem to work differently?

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If I'm in the wrong place, they can erase it. Excuse me! Has anyone references about this command or program? https: / / linrunner.de / tlp / index.html

Hi I have problem with my laptop battery: at 88% of charge shutdown the laptop without alert me.
I think that I need to calibrate the battery.
this program by command line from my repo Lubuntu works on batteries...
any reference about it?
TLP https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html
Thank you and regards!

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If I'm in the wrong place, they can erase it. Excuse me! Has anyone references about this command or program? https: / / linrunner.de / tlp / index.html

Hi I have problem with my laptop battery: at 88% of charge shutdown the laptop without alert me.
I think that I need to calibrate the battery.
this program by command line from my repo Lubuntu works on batteries...
any reference about it?
TLP https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html
Thank you and regards!

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how do I make such beautiful warning messages in my noscript like pnpm of NodeJS?
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OctoWatch - A minimalistic command-line octoprint dashboard

Want to monitor your 3D prints on the command line?

https://preview.redd.it/dr5jp1jv05se1.png?width=759&format=png&auto=webp&s=15aa7483d36c61f3525c56e0d13bb06fa3ec7563

https://preview.redd.it/w4cr4yiv05se1.png?width=762&format=png&auto=webp&s=340d805a21a63fc6d70f4f20b999dc7a682dbb51



OctoWatch is a quick and simple dashboard for monitoring 3D printers, in your network. It uses OctoPrint’s API, and displaying live print progress, timing, and temperature data, ideal for resource-constrained system and a Quick peak at the progress of your prints.

Since i have 2, 3D printers and after customizing their firmware (for faster baud rates and some gcode tweaks, for my personal taste) - i connected them with Raspberry pi zero 2W each. Installed octoprint for each printer so i can control them via network.
Since octoprint is a web UI made with python, and it always takes 5-8 seconds to just load the dashboard. So, I created octowatch - it shows you the current progress with the minimalistic view of the dashboard.

If by chance, you have can use this to test it - your feedback is highly appreciated.

Here's the link to the project: GitHub - TheKvc/octowatch: OctoWatch is a quick and simple dashboard for monitoring 3D printers, in your network. It uses OctoPrint’s API, and displaying live print progress, timing, and temperature data, ideal for resource-constrained system and a Qucik peak at the progress of your prints. 3

*Consider giving it a star on github

Note: This is made in bash, I will work on making it in batch/python as well, But i mainly use linux now...so, that might be taking time. Let me know, if you want this for other platforms too.

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Getting a job without experience

I have my bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering, I graduated in a college in Mexico in 2015.

I did an internship of 6 months when I graduated and after that my family and I relocated to the States. But, since my visa didn't let me to work just to live here I wasn't able to work here until now that I have my permanent residency.
In the meantime I took 2 certifications one in C with Linux bash noscripting and another one in SQL Databases.
I have been applying for a couple of months but haven't had answers from the companies I applied for.
What do you guys think is the best path to get hired?
I would greatly appreciate your advice and suggestions.

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Searching in always in the whole history

I search in my bash history, but somehow after I skipped something accidently by pressing:
ctrl + r a second time, I can not find it.

I love the search option, but this is so weird behaviour. Can anybody please explain, why this happens and suggest a solution, so that I can search all the time for everything?

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An alias for show then edit and then execute? anything like :p for history command but for CLI command.

Hi I'd like to get an alias that let me edit and then <CR> for execute.
I will change the flag --date for -# ¿0? -# day according to the day I want to put with respect to the current day.
The command is this:
alias dd="touch ./markdown$(date --date='-1 day' +%a%-d).md"
Thank you and Regards!

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Where can I read about CLI-colors for understand and learn about it?

Hi, my CLI has 16 colors using neofetch command,
screenshot 1 https://imgbox.com/PEfXpQZ4
where can I read about it?
If I do vim :xtermcolor(a plugin) I have a palette with more colors...
screenshot 2 https://imgbox.com/TugiCQy6
what are the colors I have?
THank you and regards!!!

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Command substitution, piping

If the following is written in with pipes instead of command substitutions, how would they compare, particularly at the lower level (e.g. do they involve the same # of forks and execs)? And differences in performance in general or other implications.

It's a very simple example, normally I would just use external commands and pipe if it's a one-off to be run on the command line, whereas for noscripts I would like to be more a little more conscious about how to write better bash (beyond simple general optimizations like avoiding excessive unnecessary external commands).

filename="$(realpath "$1")"
dir="${filename%/}"
size="$(du -b "$filename")"
size=$(numfmt --to=iec --format='%0.5f' "${size%% }")
...

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Digital footprint and website testing tool recommendations

I'm cybersecurity student and getting into bash noscripting. I want to make my own universal tool to do Digital footprint checks, website vulnerabilitie check network scans and more. I have the website vulnerabilitie check partly done using, curl, nmap, testssl, webanalyse and ffuf. And I am working on retire js and npmjs to find old Java noscripts. What more could I add to this?

Secondly I want to make a Digital footprint check. What tools / FOSS that can be used in bash noscript to do such a scan? are there any api's I need to get? I know that people sometimes use GB's worth of leaked credentials files is there any legal(open to dm's) way to obtain this.

Any more recommendation or other tools someone uses or likes to be made. when most of my tools work I'm thinking to open source everything on a Github

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noob in bash, need learn

Hey guys, I’m a student and getting into sysadmin stuff. I heard knowing Bash noscripting is kinda essential, and I really wanna learn it but I’m a total Linux noob and have no clue where to start. Any tips?

And sry for my english, im trying my best haha

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How to do this??
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Need Help for bash noscript

I'm trying to prepare a noscript in bash that books a seat in a library in my city via Affluences but i can't find any API on the web page, my idea was to use the cURL library and send a request to the server of the app, is there any advice or sub you could suggest?

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ShellCheck problem with sourcing a noscript

I'm using ShellCheck for the first time and I'm getting an error with a line in the noscript being checked which is sourcing another noscript.

My understanding of the ShellCheck documentation is that I should be able to embed a shellcheck directive telling it what to use for a source path.

It's not working.

The relevant lines in my noscript are:

SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
\# shellcheck source-path=SCRIPTDIR
source "$SCRIPT_DIR/bash_env.sh"

I get the following error:

In _setenv.sh line 45:
source "$SCRIPT_DIR/bash_env.sh"
\^-----------------------\^ SC1090: Can't follow non-constant source. Use a directive to specify location.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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Can anyone suggest me good Bash book filled with small examples only?

Hi everyone,

Can anyone suggest me good Bash book filled with lots of small examples with explanation? . I'm already going on with Advanced Bash Scripting By Mandel sir, and would like to get a book/online resource that has plenty of Bash Examples with explanation to compliment it with Mandel sir's book.

Thanks and Regards

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how to combine find and identify? pipe or &&

Hi, I was trying to use these 2 commands together but I fail.

I used find . -type f -name "3434.jpg fine
I used identify ./ fine

how do you combine then?

¿ find -name ###.jpg | identify ??

Thank you and regards!

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