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Shell/Bash

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Average annotated difficulty: 3.6/5 across 80,564 issues.
16% of 80,564 time estimates are one day or less.

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The POSIX and Unix command languages (bash, zsh, dash): the glue in build scripts, CI pipelines and every deployment.

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[InvoiceShelf] No database info Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

community-scripts/ProxmoxVE#17396 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Implement skill doesn't update completion status of planned tickets Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mattpocock/skills#1099 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
last-mile drop-off on this SKILL.md Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

mattpocock/skills#1097 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Update Vish to 1.1.5 Open

package-update

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

oSoWoSo/vOid_Community_repOsitory#144 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
CI: the Windows build script reports success after a failed compile Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

Mudlet/Mudlet#10967 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Issue with script for immich update Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

community-scripts/ProxmoxVE#17395 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Page request: Add tldr page for ssh_config Open

help wanted new command

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

tldr-pages/tldr#24151 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Update drako to 0.4.1 Open

package-update

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

oSoWoSo/vOid_Community_repOsitory#143 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
PacReq: Rune IDE Open

package request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

pacstall/pacstall-programs#9402 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[BUG] ci: the first prefetch-images.sh call runs before shard.txt exists, so it is always a no-op Open

bug github-actions

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

floci-io/floci#3995 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-crt update to R420 Open

update-request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

msys2/MINGW-packages#31768 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
wf-shell: mixer widget does not work (missing pipewire/wireplumber support) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

void-linux/void-packages#62620 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[bug] Exit when dragging files into the terminal Open

area: compat bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

reubeno/brush#1392 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
verify_web.sh leaks a ~140 MB Chrome profile into /tmp on every run; on a quota'd tmpfs that ends up breaking the shell Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

darumatic/roadmate#56 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Misc. bug: pyproject.toml: uv sync fails on macOS due to unconditional PyTorch CPU index Open

bug-unconfirmed

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

ggml-org/llama.cpp#29176 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
STATE-1: Two of the four narrowing implementations set the mode through a symlinked state directory instead Open

bug spec-mismatch

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

brave/bravebot#514 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
STATE-2: The installer joins the directory name onto an empty HOME and reads /.bravebot/installed-by, so a Open

bug spec-mismatch

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

brave/bravebot#491 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Suggested test: copilot/upload-artifact-relative-path-staging Open

suggested new test

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

githubnext/gh-aw-test#16875 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
CLAUDE.md (Testes): a reconciliação rodapé × grep FAIL chama de "sonda cega" o que é falha de coleta Open

area/docs

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

melgarafael/DeskcommCRM#1361 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Update vtm to 2026.9.20 Open

package-update

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100

oSoWoSo/vOid_Community_repOsitory#142 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
The mount-helper scripts match any fuse.s3 mount as ObjectFS, and `--uninstall` refuses over it Open

area: build priority: low type: technical-debt

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

scttfrdmn/objectfs#538 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Systemadmin: Add corresponding aliases for port 443 Open

Feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#14114 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Agent Builder setenv.sh can generate malformed Application Insights connection string Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft-foundry/model-mastery#7 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[REL-04][P2][security] Unix installation skips integrity verification when tools are absent. Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

mrchypark/yeoul#84 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[REL-03][P2][docs] “Specific version” examples install the latest binary. Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

mrchypark/yeoul#83 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
docs(dogfood): update exit-7 message for signal/abort coverage Open

agent-review-finding chore

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

jordansmall/spindrift#3558 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Recovery banner prints the base OS version, and nothing at all on Hadron and Alpine, because kairos-release has no VERSION key Open

area/cloud-config bug kairos-init

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

kairos-io/kairos#4790 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
aur-build red on main since #2106: the AUR package has a hand-maintained submodule list and does not know about iec-60908b or cueparser Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

grumpycoders/pcsx-redux#2111 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
techwriting.md bans metanarrative and governs every piece of English prose Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

alunduil/alunduil-chezmoi#781 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Clarify that `DO_NOT_TRACK` only disables telemetry if `1` or `true` Open

content triage

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

github/docs#45957 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Bootstrap docs list every credential the Grafana access-policy token creates Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 92/100

alunduil/alunduil-infrastructure#584 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Practicals assume a POSIX shell but the README says any operating system is fine Open

beginners environment

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

naturalis/DABDGE#10 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
The Unix sbt script ignores JAVA_HOME when picking the JVM (Windows honors it) Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

sbt/sbt#9794 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
System Updater doesn't work with Wezterm Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell#3502 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
installDockerGeneric pipe masks curl failure, Docker install silently skipped Open

co/docker-driver

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

kubernetes/minikube#23760 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Adding "shell" for syntax highlight Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

henriklovhaug/md-tui#272 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
RELEASE-NOTES say a deleted .superpowers/sdd/progress.md can be recovered from git log; it cannot Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

obra/superpowers#2344 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
borg fails silently to create ssh keys if borg server url does not starts with ssh://USER@DOMAIN.TLD Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

YunoHost-Apps/borg_ynh#272 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
deploy: empty-path ABSENT manifest line is now fail-open Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

ntindle/spark-vm#103 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
`install.sh` unresolved `$XDG_DATA_HOME/../bin` causes false "shadowed by other commands" warning and unnecessary rc-file edits Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

astral-sh/uv#21837 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
The partir client's system libraries are declared in packages.yaml Open

chore

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

alunduil/alunduil-chezmoi#775 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
fetch_step.sh runs ssh without -n: a caller that backgrounds it inside a read loop loses its input Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

meteocima/CHAPTER#32 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Update llmfit to 1.1.16 Open

package-update

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

oSoWoSo/vOid_Community_repOsitory#141 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Picker: consider a faster path for agent status than shelling out to claude Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

craftzdog/tmux-claude-hatch#36 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Enable CONFIG_SENSORS_YOGAFAN in linux7.2 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

void-linux/void-packages#62603 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Version update workflow does not escape Git tags in sed replacements Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

objectionary/phino#1342 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Release workflow interpolates github.ref_name into an unquoted S3 command Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

objectionary/phino#1341 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Maven workflow vulnerability: unsafe interpolation of github.ref_name into shell API URL Open

bug good-title

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

objectionary/lints#1494 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
`github.ref_name` improperly expands within a shell path in XSD workflow Open

bug good-title

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

objectionary/eo#8852 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Security vulnerability in EO Telegram workflow: unsafe `github.ref_name` interpolation into shell command Open

bug good-title

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

objectionary/eo#8851 · Opened Sep 19, 2026

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