There's a good linter for BASH called ShellCheck, it can be installed on Debian based systmes with:
# apt-get install shellcheck
You can then invoke it simply from the command line to get feedback on your shell script. The messages are colour coded to indicate their severity: green, yellow and red:
On the fly syntax checking in Emacs
It's easy getting on the fly linting of the BASH scripts you're working on by installing flycheck:
M-x package-install flycheck
and enable it everwhere:
(setq global-flycheck-mode t)
It will now pick up whatever linting tool you've installed for the
current mode, e.g. shellcheck. For a list of all languages and
linting tools it supports out of the box, have a look at
this list .
