diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index c8778236..5bed69cc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -14,22 +14,22 @@ jobs:
     name: Lint
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - uses: actions/cache@v2
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
         name: Cache pip directory
         with:
           path: ~/.cache/pip
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-3.9
 
-      - uses: actions/cache@v2
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
         name: Cache poetry deps
         with:
           path: .venv
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-build-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}-3.9
 
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: 3.9
 
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ jobs:
         lang: [C, en_US.UTF-8]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - uses: actions/cache@v2
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
         name: Cache pip directory
         with:
           path: ~/.cache/pip
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-3.9
 
-      - uses: actions/cache@v2
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
         name: Cache poetry deps
         env:
           cache-name: poetry-deps
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-build-${{ env.cache-name }}-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
@@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          SH_TESTS_RUNNING=1 SH_TESTS_USE_SELECT=${{ matrix.use-select }} LANG=${{ matrix.lang }} poetry run coverage run -a -m pytest
+          SH_TESTS_RUNNING=1 SH_TESTS_USE_SELECT=${{ matrix.use-select }} LANG=${{ matrix.lang }} poetry run coverage run --data-file=coverage.data -a -m pytest
 
       - name: Store coverage
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
           name: coverage.${{ matrix.use-select }}.${{ matrix.lang }}.${{ matrix.python-version }}
-          path: .coverage
+          path: coverage.data
 
   report:
     name: Report Coverage
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       # required because coveralls complains if we're not in a git dir
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: 3.9
 
@@ -118,13 +118,13 @@ jobs:
           pip install coverage coveralls
 
       - name: Download coverage artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
           path: coverage-artifacts
 
       - name: Combine coverage
         run: |
-          find coverage-artifacts -name .coverage | xargs coverage combine -a
+          find coverage-artifacts -name coverage.data | xargs coverage combine -a
 
       - name: Report coverage
         env:
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ jobs:
       id-token: write
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Get current version
         id: get_version
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ jobs:
           git push -f origin "${{steps.get_version.outputs.version}}"
 
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: 3.9
 
diff --git a/docs/source/sections/contrib.rst b/docs/source/sections/contrib.rst
index c18877ee..dd189437 100644
--- a/docs/source/sections/contrib.rst
+++ b/docs/source/sections/contrib.rst
@@ -130,6 +130,32 @@ this.
 
     The currently written character.
 
+
+.. _contrib_bash:
+
+Bash
+---
+
+Often users may find themselves having to run bash commands directly, whether due
+to commands having special characters (e.g. dash, or dot) or other reasons. 
+This can lead into recurrently having to bake the ``bash`` command to call it directly. To 
+account for this, the contrib version provides a ``bash`` command baked in:
+
+.. py:function:: bash(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    Call bash with the prefix of "bash -c [...]".
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from sh.contrib import bash
+
+    # Calling commands directly
+    bash.ls() # equivallent to "bash -c ls"
+
+    # Or adding the full commands
+    bash("command-with-dashes args")
+
+
 Extending
 =========
 
diff --git a/sh.py b/sh.py
index 556df8ff..4a83a3ac 100644
--- a/sh.py
+++ b/sh.py
@@ -3471,6 +3471,12 @@ def git(orig):  # pragma: no cover
     return cmd
 
 
+@contrib("bash")
+def bash(orig):
+    cmd = orig.bake("-c")
+    return cmd
+
+
 @contrib("sudo")
 def sudo(orig):  # pragma: no cover
     """a nicer version of sudo that uses getpass to ask for a password, or