Bash Portability

jamie-bitflight/bash-portability

This skill should be used when the user asks about "POSIX compatibility", "portable shell scripts", "cross-shell compatibility", "bashisms", "shebang selection", or mentions writing scripts that work on different shells (bash, sh, dash, zsh) or different systems.

2k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills --skill bash-portability

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take jamie-bitflight/bash-portability from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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