--- title: bashumerate — A programmable iterator for your shell description: bashumerate is a small bash utility that provides a unified syntax for iterating over files, lines, ranges, and lists in the shell. Instead of juggling for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bashumerate-a-programmable-iterator-for-your-shell-mpicxyb2t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: bashumerate — A programmable iterator for your shell | daily.dev og:description: bashumerate is a small bash utility that provides a unified syntax for iterating over files, lines, ranges, and lists in the shell. Instead of juggling for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bashumerate-a-programmable-iterator-for-your-shell-mpicxyb2t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mPIcxyB2t.png og:image:alt: bashumerate — A programmable iterator for your shell og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # bashumerate — A programmable iterator for your shell **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary bashumerate is a small bash utility that provides a unified syntax for iterating over files, lines, ranges, and lists in the shell. Instead of juggling for loops, find -exec, and xargs with their different quirks, you use a single `enumerate` command with a `{}` placeholder. It supports four built-in source types, include/exclude glob filters, NUL-safe output, and an extensible plugin system where dropping a function into lib/enumerators/ adds a new source type. The core is ~140 lines of bash with no eval tricks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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