Bash

I Use This!

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Analyzed 18 days ago. based on code collected about 2 months ago.

Project Summary

Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).

Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).

In a Nutshell, Bash...

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has had 117 commits made by 2 contributors
representing 181,324 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by by one developer
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 46 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 1996
ending with its most recent commit 4 months ago

Quick Reference

Project Links:

Homepage
Documentation ( 2 Links )
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Code Locations:

git://git.savannah.gnu.org/bash.git

GPL-2.0+

Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

Security Confidence Index

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Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities

Few reported vulnerabilities

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