Learn to say popular shell script linting and formatting tool names correctly.
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How is ShellCheck (static analysis tool that finds bugs and bad practices in shell scripts) correctly pronounced?
ShellCheck is pronounced 'SHEL-chek' — 'shell' plus 'check', both plain English words. In a technical interview: "ShellCheck flagged the unquoted variable that would have broken the script on any path containing a space."
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How is shfmt (command-line tool for formatting shell scripts consistently) correctly pronounced?
shfmt is pronounced 'ESH-EF-EM-TEE' — 'S-H-F-M-T' spoken as letters, short for shell format. In a technical interview: "shfmt reindented the whole script and made every function use the same brace style."
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How is bashate (style-checking tool that enforces coding conventions for Bash scripts) correctly pronounced?
bashate is pronounced 'BASH-ayt' — 'bash' plus '-ate', echoing words like 'dictate'. In a technical interview: "bashate rejected the commit because one line in the deploy script went past the eighty-character limit."
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How is checkbashisms (tool that detects Bash-specific syntax accidentally used in POSIX shell scripts) correctly pronounced?
checkbashisms is pronounced 'CHEK-bash-iz-umz' — 'check' plus 'bashisms', meaning Bash-only idioms. In a technical interview: "checkbashisms caught the array syntax that would have silently failed under the plain 'sh' interpreter."
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How is explainshell (web tool that breaks down and explains shell commands piece by piece) correctly pronounced?
explainshell is pronounced 'ek-SPLAYN-shel' — 'explain' exactly like the everyday word, plus 'shell'. In a technical interview: "explainshell broke down that dense find-and-xargs pipeline flag by flag so the new hire finally understood it."