diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b9d257d..917bb08 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ There are three different options for minification:
 | `--minify=lib`  | Embedded library scripts will be minified. [default] |
 | `--minify=all`  | Everything will be minified.                         |
 
-This uses [bash_minifier](https://github.com/precious/bash_minifier) to perform minification, and requires Python 2 to be installed as either `python2` or `python`.
+This uses [shfmt](https://github.com/mvdan/sh) to perform minification.
+
 
  
 
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 791f05c..ca62974 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 # Issues:     https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras/issues
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 HERE="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-DL="$HERE/.download"
 BIN="$HERE/bin"
 SRC="$HERE/src"
 LIB="$HERE/lib"
@@ -162,13 +161,7 @@ pp_strip_comments() {
 # Minify a Bash source file.
 # https://github.com/precious/bash_minifier
 pp_minify() {
-	local python="python"
-	if command -v python2 &>/dev/null; then
-		python="python2"
-	fi
-
-	"$python" "$DL/minifier.py"
-	printf "\n"
+	shfmt -mn
 }
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -196,14 +189,13 @@ else
 fi
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Download resources.
+# Check for resources.
 
-[[ -d "$DL" ]] || mkdir "$DL"
 [[ -d "$BIN" ]] || mkdir "$BIN"
 
-if [[ "$OPT_MINIFY" != "none" ]] && ! [[ -f "$DL/minifier.py" ]]; then
-	printc "%{YELLOW}Downloading %{BLUE}https://github.com/precious/bash_minifier%{YELLOW}...%{CLEAR}\n" 1>&2
-	curl -sL "https://gitcdn.xyz/repo/precious/bash_minifier/master/minifier.py" > "$DL/minifier.py"
+if [[ "$OPT_MINIFY" != "none" ]] && ! command -v shfmt &>/dev/null; then
+	printc "%{RED}Warning: cannot find shfmt. Unable to minify scripts.%{CLEAR}\n"
+	OPT_MINIFY=none
 fi
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/doc/prettybat.md b/doc/prettybat.md
index a757d80..adc4df5 100644
--- a/doc/prettybat.md
+++ b/doc/prettybat.md
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ See `man bat` for more information.
 | YAML                 | [prettier](https://prettier.io/)                |
 | HTML                 | [prettier](https://prettier.io/)                |
 | Rust                 | [rustfmt](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt) |
+| Bash                 | [shfmt](https://github.com/mvdan/sh)            |