diff --git a/.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml b/.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..af712ff238
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/shellcheck.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - build_linux.sh
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - build_linux.sh
+  workflow_dispatch: # allows for manual dispatch
+
+name: "Shellcheck"
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  shellcheck:
+    name: Shellcheck
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Cache shellcheck download
+        id: cache-shellcheck-v0_11
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/shellcheck
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-shellcheck-v0_11
+
+      - name: Download shellcheck
+        if: steps.cache-shellcheck-v0_11.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          INPUT_VERSION: "v0.11.0"
+        run: |
+          curl -L#o ~/sc.tar.xz "https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/releases/download/${INPUT_VERSION}/shellcheck-${INPUT_VERSION}.linux.x86_64.tar.xz"
+          tar -xvf ~/sc.tar.xz -C ~
+          mv ~/shellcheck-"${INPUT_VERSION}"/shellcheck ~/shellcheck
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Shellcheck build_linux.sh
+        run: ~/shellcheck -e SC1090 build_linux.sh
diff --git a/build_linux.sh b/build_linux.sh
index d1bb7403c9..3f10e9cec9 100755
--- a/build_linux.sh
+++ b/build_linux.sh
@@ -1,33 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename "$0")
-SCRIPT_PATH=$(dirname $(readlink -f ${0}))
-
-pushd ${SCRIPT_PATH} > /dev/null
-
 set -e # Exit immediately if a command exits with a non-zero status.
 
-function check_available_memory_and_disk() {
-    FREE_MEM_GB=$(free --gibi --total | grep 'Mem' | rev | cut --delimiter=" " --fields=1 | rev)
-    MIN_MEM_GB=10
+SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename "$0")
+SCRIPT_PATH=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${0}")")
 
-    FREE_DISK_KB=$(df --block-size=1K . | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}')
-    MIN_DISK_KB=$((10 * 1024 * 1024))
-
-    if [[ ${FREE_MEM_GB} -le ${MIN_MEM_GB} ]] ; then
-        echo -e "\nERROR: Orca Slicer Builder requires at least ${MIN_MEM_GB}G of 'available' mem (system has only ${FREE_MEM_GB}G available)"
-        echo && free --human && echo
-        echo "Invoke with -r to skip RAM and disk checks."
-        exit 2
-    fi
-
-    if [[ ${FREE_DISK_KB} -le ${MIN_DISK_KB} ]] ; then
-        echo -e "\nERROR: Orca Slicer Builder requires at least $(echo ${MIN_DISK_KB} |awk '{ printf "%.1fG\n", $1/1024/1024; }') (system has only $(echo ${FREE_DISK_KB} | awk '{ printf "%.1fG\n", $1/1024/1024; }') disk free)"
-        echo && df --human-readable . && echo
-        echo "Invoke with -r to skip ram and disk checks."
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
+pushd "${SCRIPT_PATH}" > /dev/null
 
 function usage() {
     echo "Usage: ./${SCRIPT_NAME} [-1][-b][-c][-d][-h][-i][-j N][-p][-r][-s][-u][-l]"
@@ -72,7 +49,7 @@ while getopts ":1j:bcCdhiprsul" opt ; do
         BUILD_DEPS="1"
         ;;
     h ) usage
-        exit 0
+        exit 1
         ;;
     i )
         BUILD_IMAGE="1"
@@ -87,19 +64,45 @@ while getopts ":1j:bcCdhiprsul" opt ; do
         BUILD_ORCA="1"
         ;;
     u )
-        UPDATE_LIB="1"
+        export UPDATE_LIB="1"
         ;;
     l )
         USE_CLANG="1"
         ;;
+    * )
+	echo "Unknown argument '${opt}', aborting."
+	exit 1
+	;;
   esac
 done
 
 if [ ${OPTIND} -eq 1 ] ; then
     usage
-    exit 0
+    exit 1
 fi
 
+function check_available_memory_and_disk() {
+    FREE_MEM_GB=$(free --gibi --total | grep 'Mem' | rev | cut --delimiter=" " --fields=1 | rev)
+    MIN_MEM_GB=10
+
+    FREE_DISK_KB=$(df --block-size=1K . | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}')
+    MIN_DISK_KB=$((10 * 1024 * 1024))
+
+    if [[ ${FREE_MEM_GB} -le ${MIN_MEM_GB} ]] ; then
+        echo -e "\nERROR: Orca Slicer Builder requires at least ${MIN_MEM_GB}G of 'available' mem (system has only ${FREE_MEM_GB}G available)"
+        echo && free --human && echo
+        echo "Invoke with -r to skip RAM and disk checks."
+        exit 2
+    fi
+
+    if [[ ${FREE_DISK_KB} -le ${MIN_DISK_KB} ]] ; then
+        echo -e "\nERROR: Orca Slicer Builder requires at least $(echo "${MIN_DISK_KB}" |awk '{ printf "%.1fG\n", $1/1024/1024; }') (system has only $(echo "${FREE_DISK_KB}" | awk '{ printf "%.1fG\n", $1/1024/1024; }') disk free)"
+        echo && df --human-readable . && echo
+        echo "Invoke with -r to skip ram and disk checks."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
 # cmake 4.x compatibility workaround
 export CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
 
@@ -115,13 +118,13 @@ elif [[ "${DISTRIBUTION_LIKE}" == *"arch"* ]] ; then
     DISTRIBUTION="arch"
 fi
 
-if [ ! -f ./scripts/linux.d/${DISTRIBUTION} ] ; then
+if [ ! -f "./scripts/linux.d/${DISTRIBUTION}" ] ; then
     echo "Your distribution \"${DISTRIBUTION}\" is not supported by system-dependency scripts in ./scripts/linux.d/"
     echo "Please resolve dependencies manually and contribute a script for your distribution to upstream."
     exit 1
 else
     echo "resolving system dependencies for distribution \"${DISTRIBUTION}\" ..."
-    source ./scripts/linux.d/${DISTRIBUTION}
+    source "./scripts/linux.d/${DISTRIBUTION}"
 fi
 
 echo "FOUND_GTK3=${FOUND_GTK3}"
@@ -139,7 +142,7 @@ echo "Changing date in version..."
 echo "done"
 
 
-if ! [[ -n "${SKIP_RAM_CHECK}" ]] ; then
+if [[ -z "${SKIP_RAM_CHECK}" ]] ; then
     check_available_memory_and_disk
 fi
 
@@ -155,29 +158,28 @@ if [[ -n "${BUILD_DEPS}" ]] ; then
     then
         rm -fr deps/build
     fi
-    if [ ! -d "deps/build" ]
-    then
-        mkdir deps/build
-    fi
+    mkdir -p deps/build
     if [[ -n "${BUILD_DEBUG}" ]] ; then
         # build deps with debug and release else cmake will not find required sources
-        if [ ! -d "deps/build/release" ] ; then
-            mkdir deps/build/release
-        fi
-        cmake ${CMAKE_C_CXX_COMPILER_CLANG} -S deps -B deps/build/release -DSLIC3R_PCH=${SLIC3R_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS} -G Ninja -DDESTDIR="${SCRIPT_PATH}/deps/build/destdir" -DDEP_DOWNLOAD_DIR="${SCRIPT_PATH}/deps/DL_CACHE" ${COLORED_OUTPUT} ${BUILD_ARGS}
+        mkdir -p deps/build/release
+	CMAKE_CMD="cmake ${CMAKE_C_CXX_COMPILER_CLANG} -S deps -B deps/build/release -DSLIC3R_PCH=${SLIC3R_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS} -G Ninja -DDESTDIR=${SCRIPT_PATH}/deps/build/destdir -DDEP_DOWNLOAD_DIR=${SCRIPT_PATH}/deps/DL_CACHE ${COLORED_OUTPUT} ${BUILD_ARGS}"
+	echo "${CMAKE_CMD}"
+	${CMAKE_CMD}
         cmake --build deps/build/release
         BUILD_ARGS="${BUILD_ARGS} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug"
     fi
 
-    echo "cmake -S deps -B deps/build ${CMAKE_C_CXX_COMPILER_CLANG} -G Ninja ${BUILD_ARGS}"
-    cmake -S deps -B deps/build ${CMAKE_C_CXX_COMPILER_CLANG} -G Ninja ${COLORED_OUTPUT} ${BUILD_ARGS}
+    # If this isn't in one quote, then empty variables can add two single quotes and mess up argument parsing for cmake.
+    CMAKE_CMD="cmake -S deps -B deps/build ${CMAKE_C_CXX_COMPILER_CLANG} -G Ninja ${COLORED_OUTPUT} ${BUILD_ARGS}"
+    echo "${CMAKE_CMD}"
+    ${CMAKE_CMD}
     cmake --build deps/build
 fi
 
 if [[ -n "${BUILD_ORCA}" ]] ; then
     echo "Configuring OrcaSlicer..."
     if [[ -n "${CLEAN_BUILD}" ]] ; then
-        rm --force --recursive build
+        rm -fr build
     fi
     BUILD_ARGS="${ORCA_EXTRA_BUILD_ARGS}"
     if [[ -n "${FOUND_GTK3_DEV}" ]] ; then
@@ -191,12 +193,12 @@ if [[ -n "${BUILD_ORCA}" ]] ; then
 
     CMAKE_CMD="cmake -S . -B build ${CMAKE_C_CXX_COMPILER_CLANG} -G Ninja Multi-Config \
 -DSLIC3R_PCH=${SLIC3R_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS} \
--DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${SCRIPT_PATH}/deps/build/destdir/usr/local" \
+-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${SCRIPT_PATH}/deps/build/destdir/usr/local \
 -DSLIC3R_STATIC=1 \
 -DORCA_TOOLS=ON \
 ${COLORED_OUTPUT} \
 ${BUILD_ARGS}"
-    echo -e "${CMAKE_CMD}"
+    echo "${CMAKE_CMD}"
     ${CMAKE_CMD}
     echo "done"
     echo "Building OrcaSlicer ..."