ShellCheck v0.7.0 has just been released. In addition to the usual “bug fixes and improvements”, there is a set of new features:

Autofixes

A few select warnings now come with auto-fixes. In the most straight-forward case, ShellCheck shows you what it thinks the line ought to be:

In foo line 2:
echo "File size: $(stat -c %s $1)"
                              ^-- SC2086: Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting.

Did you mean:
echo "File size: $(stat -c %s "$1")"

To actually apply the fixes, you can use ShellCheck’s new diff output format, which outputs standard Unified Diffs that can be piped into tools like git apply and patch:

$ shellcheck -f diff foo
--- a/foo
+++ b/foo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-echo "File size: $(stat -c %s $1)"
+echo "File size: $(stat -c %s "$1")"

For example, to apply only SC2086 fixes to all .sh file in a project:

$ shellcheck --include=SC2086 -f diff **/*.sh | git apply

Optional Checks

ShellCheck now includes a small handful of checks that are off by default. These are intended for subjective issues that a project may choose to enforce:

$ cat foo
#!/bin/sh
# shellcheck enable=require-variable-braces
name=World
echo "Hello $name"

$ shellcheck foo
In foo line 4:
echo "Hello $name"
            ^---^ SC2250: Prefer putting braces around variable references even when not strictly required.

Did you mean:
echo "Hello ${name}"

For a list of such checks, run shellcheck --list-optional

source paths

ShellCheck now allows you to specify a list of search locations for sourced scripts using a # shellcheck source-path=/my/dir directive or --source-path flag.

This is useful in several cases:

• If all the projects’ sourced files are relative to the same directory, you can now specify this directory once instead of having to add source directives everywhere.
• The special name SCRIPTDIR can be specified in a path to refer to the location of the script being checked, allowing ShellCheck to more conveniently discover included files from the same directory. This also works for any path relative to the script’s directory, such as SCRIPTDIR/../include/
• Absolute paths are also grounded in the source path, so by specifying source-path=/mnt/chroot, shellcheck will look for . /bin/funcs.sh in /mnt/chroot/bin/funcs.sh. This is useful when targeting a specific system, such as an embedded one.

RC files

Rather than adding directives in each file, you can now set most of the options above in a .shellcheckrc file in the project’s root directory (or your home directory). This allows you to easily apply the same options to all scripts on a per-project/directory basis.

Bats and shflags support

ShellCheck no longer needs any preprocessing to check Bats scripts:

$ cat test.bats
#!/usr/bin/env bats

@test "addition using bc" {
  result="$(echo 2+2 | bc)"
  [ "$result" -eq 4 ]
}

$ shellcheck test.bats && echo "Success"
Success

A bats shebang will be interpreted as “bash”, and @test statements will be correctly parsed.

ShellCheck now also recognizes DEFINE_* statements from the shflags library:

DEFINE_string 'name' 'world' 'name to say hello to' 'n'
              ^----^ SC2034: FLAGS_name appears unused. Verify use (or export if used externally).

For a more extensive list of changes, check out the ChangeLog.

Happy ShellChecking!