Gedit shellcheck linter plugin

Today I had enough of the missing shell linting support in Gedit. So I took the time and derived a gedit-shellcheck plugin from an already existing JSHint plugin written by Xavier Gendre.

Usage

The linter can be run using Ctrl-J or from the Tools menu 'Check with ShellCheck'. Here is a screenshot Screenshot of Gedit with gedit-shellcheck output

Screenshot of Gedit with gedit-shellcheck output

Setup

To use the plugin you need ShellCheck

apt install shellcheck

and you need to place the plugin in your Gedit plugins folder.

git clone https://github.com/lwindolf/gedit-shellcheck.git
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
cp -r gedit-shellcheck/shellcheck.plugin gedit-shellcheck/shellcheck/ ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/

Finally restart Gedit and activate the plugin.