Bashou
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A pixel-art pet in the corner of your terminal that grows while you learn the command line.
Free, offline, no account, no AI.
A pet that gives tips, and bashou learn | Fights in a sandbox shell |
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| Pets to find | A banner to share |
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Install
Bashou has its own signed repositories: install it once, and it updates with the rest of your system.
Debian, Ubuntu (apt):
sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSLo /etc/apt/keyrings/bashou.asc https://iamastealer.github.io/Bashou/bashou.asc
printf '%s\n' 'Types: deb' 'URIs: https://iamastealer.github.io/Bashou/deb/' 'Suites: ./' \
'Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/bashou.asc' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bashou.sources
sudo apt update && sudo apt install bashou
Rocky, Alma, RHEL, Fedora (dnf):
sudo curl -fsSLo /etc/yum.repos.d/bashou.repo https://iamastealer.github.io/Bashou/bashou.repo
sudo dnf install bashou
Open a new terminal: your pet is there.
macOS, any other Linux, zsh only, or git to follow the code as it's written: see INSTALL.md.
What you can do
Learn bash while you work, in your real terminal: tips from your pet, fights, lessons, projects and quizzes.
Then pick what you want: Linux, packages, gpg and pass, SQL, CI/CD, Python, C or Rust.
Pets
Choose a starter: Stardust, Seedling or Pebble. It grows up to level 20 and changes shape along the way.
32 more pets hide in your terminal, each earned by what it stands for.
Your data stays on your machine
Bashou collects nothing: no account, no telemetry, no ads. Details.
Use
bashou # see how your pet is doing
bashou -h # all commands
bashou here # bring your pet to this terminal
bashou update # get the new version (your pet tells you when there is one; apt or dnf for packages)
More
| Read | For |
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| Commands | What each command does, fights, two computers, your data |
| Other installs | macOS, any other Linux, git, Homebrew, uninstall |
| Guide | Pets, achievements, fights, translations |
| Changelog | Every change, release by release |
| How it started | Made with AI for responsible use; the Rust version is written by hand |
| Contributing | Pixel art, lessons, security challenges, adventure questions |
Report a bug or suggest an idea.
MIT license.
