Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BASH file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BASH to another file type
To convert BASH scripts to another format, you need GNU Bash or other Developer software.
Convert a file to BASH
To convert other file formats to the "Shell Script" file type, you need software like GNU Bash or a similar tool.
About BASH files
A .BASH file is a script written for the Bourne Again SHell (Bash), the default command-line interpreter for most Linux distributions and macOS (prior to Catalina). These plain text files contain a series of commands executed sequentially to automate tasks like software installation, system configuration, or file manipulation. While powerful in Unix environments, .BASH files present significant hurdles for cross-platform users. They are natively incompatible with Microsoft Windows, requiring subsystems like WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) or third-party tools like Git for Windows to execute. Furthermore, sharing raw scripts carries security risks, as the code is easily modified, and users without technical knowledge may struggle to open them safely. To improve accessibility and documentation, users frequently convert these scripts to PDF for non-editable archiving or standard TXT files for universal viewing. For cross-platform utility, converting logic to Windows Batch (BAT) or PowerShell (PS1) is often necessary, though complex logic usually requires manual refactoring rather than direct conversion.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BASH file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BASH file to PYTHON, CSH, FISH, SH, BAT, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C or CS, you can use GNU Bash or similar software from the "Shell Script Automation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to BASH, try GNU Bash or another comparable tool in the "Shell Script Automation" category.
The BASH Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BASH converter.