How to Install shellcheck in Ubuntu 18.04



Install shellcheck by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install shellcheck

Description:

lint tool for shell scripts

The goals of ShellCheck are: . * To point out and clarify typical beginner's syntax issues, that causes a shell to give cryptic error messages. . * To point out and clarify typical intermediate level semantic problems, that causes a shell to behave strangely and counter-intuitively. . * To point out subtle caveats, corner cases and pitfalls, that may cause an advanced user's otherwise working script to fail under future circumstances.

Homepage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck

Version: 0.4.6-1

Section: universe/devel