Bash | Zed Code Editor Documentation
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# Bash

Bash language support in Zed is provided by the community-maintained Basher extension. Report issues to: https://github.com/d1y/bash.zed/issues

- Tree-sitter: tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash
- Language Server: bash-lsp/bash-language-server

## Configuration

When `shellcheck` is available `bash-language-server` will use it internally to provide diagnostics.

### Install `shellcheck`:

    brew install shellcheck             # macOS (HomeBrew)
    apt-get install shellcheck          # Ubuntu/Debian
    pacman -S shellcheck                # ArchLinux
    dnf install shellcheck              # Fedora
    yum install shellcheck              # CentOS/RHEL
    zypper install shellcheck           # openSUSE
    choco install shellcheck            # Windows (Chocolatey)

And verify it is available from your path:

    which shellcheck
    shellcheck --version

If you wish to customize the warnings/errors reported you just need to create a `.shellcheckrc` file. You can do this in the root of your project or in your home directory (`~/.shellcheckrc`). See: shellcheck documentation for more.

### See also:

- Zed Docs: Language Support: Shell Scripts