# Install bash-language-server with npm

A language server for Bash. Version 5.6.0 via npm; verified 2025-04-13.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:bash-language-server
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g bash-language-server
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:bash-language-server
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/bash-language-server>
- **Version:** 5.6.0
- **Source summary:** A language server for Bash
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/bash-language-server/-/bash-language-server-5.6.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-04-13T21:25:27.098Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-13T21:25:27.098Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- bash-language-server (cli)

## Dependencies

- editorconfig
- fast-glob
- fuzzy-search
- node-fetch
- turndown
- vscode-languageserver
- vscode-languageserver-textdocument
- web-tree-sitter
- zod

## Build dependencies

- @types/fuzzy-search
- @types/node-fetch
- @types/turndown
- @types/urijs

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 5.6.0
- Package-manager updated: 2025-04-13
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for bash-language-server. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Beta: 5.0.0-rc2, Latest: 5.6.0
- **Version Count:** 110
- **Maintainers:** skovhus, mads-hartmann
- **Author:** Mads Hartmann
- **Publisher:** skovhus
- **Engines:** Node: >=16
- **Integrity:** sha512-DCuV+/BZAAozsp5blvi6jDnU/ZDaTpJpWM0zqwGjnirfqv7iBsMK32xOze/jipxU0PUZ6CBUKgRUMKI7Kk70Lg==
- **Shasum:** cdbe509ca32f4dfd7f705d1f8b28be8ec4f1ae27
- **Unpacked Size:** 2,078,820
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2018-03-02T19:16:11.898Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-04-13T21:25:27.098Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-04-13T21:25:27.352Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - bash-language-server: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ba/bash-language-server/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - bash-language-server - 5.6.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: bash-language-server from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Bash language server implementation based on Tree Sitter and its grammar for Bash | https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server
- MacPorts - bash-language-server: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/bash-language-server/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [bash-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bash-language-server/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: bash, bash-language-server, language, node, server.
- [dockerfile-language-server-nodejs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/dockerfile-language-server-nodejs/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: language, languageserver, server, textdocument, vscode.
- [prismic-ts-codegen](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/prismic-ts-codegen/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: fast, fast-glob, fetch, glob, node.
- [bash-language-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bash-language-server/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph