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    zsh

    zsh

    Customizable command shell for UNIX-like environments

    zsh is a shell probably most similar to ksh, but with countless enhancements and differences.
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 780 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 74 This Week
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    Babashka

    Babashka

    Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

    Avoid switching between Clojure and bash scripts. Enjoy your parens on the command line. Leveraging GraalVM native-image and the Small Clojure Interpreter, babashka is a self-contained and instantly starting scripting environment. Babashka comes with scripting batteries included: tools.cli, cheshire, babashka.fs, babashka.process, java.time and many more libraries and classes. Babashka scripts work on linux, macOS and Windows. Besides the built-in libraries, babashka is able to load libraries from source, tapping into the world of already existing Clojure libraries. Babashka supports real JVM threads and like Clojure, supports futures and dynamic thread-locally bound vars. Babashka features a built-in task runner which covers the most popular use cases of make, just and npm scripts. Babashka can shell out to other CLI programs like you are used to in bash. It goes one step further and offers seamless integration with other binaries using the pod protocol.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Minimal Linux Live

    Minimal Linux Live

    Minimal Linux Live (MLL) is a tiny educational Linux distribution

    Minimal Linux Live is a tiny educational Linux distribution, which is designed to be built from scratch by using a collection of automated shell scripts. Minimal Linux Live offers a core environment with just the Linux kernel, GNU C library and Busybox userland utilities. Additional software can be included in the ISO image at build time by using a well-documented configuration file. Minimal Linux Live can be downloaded as a pre-built image, built from scratch or run in a web browser by using a JavaScript PC emulator.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    fish

    fish

    The user-friendly command line shell

    Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family. fish suggests commands as you type based on history and completions, just like a web browser. Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0! fish supports 24 bit true color, the state of the art in terminal technology. Behold the monospaced rainbow. fish is fully scriptable, and its syntax is simple, clean, and consistent. You'll never write esac again. For those lucky few with a graphical computer, you can set your colors and view functions, variables, and history all from a web page. Other shells support programmable completions, but only fish generates them automatically by parsing your installed man pages. fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax highlighting that just work, with nothing new to learn or configure.
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    desk

    desk

    A lightweight workspace manager for the shell

    Lightweight workspace manager for the shell. Desk makes it easy to flip back and forth between different project contexts in your favorite shell. Change directory, activate a virtualenv or rvm, load in domain-specific aliases, environment variables, functions, arbitrary shell files, all in a single command. Instead of relying on CTRL-R to execute and recall ("that command's gotta be here somewhere..."), desk helps shorten and document those actions with shell aliases and functions, which are then namespaced under a particular desk. Because Deskfiles are just enriched shell scripts, the possibilities are endless. For example, when doing work on AWS I have desk securely load AWS API keys into environment variables via pass -- no effort on my part, and no risk of accidentally persisting that sensitive information to a history file.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    SoupToNuts is a repository of technical articles and example software covering Postfix, OpenSSH, C and C++, Live Linux CD, MySQL, SQLite, Berkeley DB, Bash and System Administration.
    Downloads: 30 This Week
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    INim

    INim

    Interactive Nim shell / REPL / Playground

    INim is an interactive shell (REPL) for the Nim programming language, providing a platform for executing Nim code snippets in real-time.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    bash-completion

    bash-completion

    Programmable completion functions for bash

    bash-completion is a collection of command-line command completions for the Bash shell, a collection of helper functions to assist in creating new completions, and a set of facilities for loading completions automatically on-demand, as well as installing them. The easiest way to install this software is to use a package; refer to Repology for a comprehensive list of operating system distributions, package names, and available versions. Depending on the package, you may still need to source it from either /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc (or any other file sourcing those). If you don't have the package readily available for your distribution, or you simply don't want to use one, you can install bash-completion using the standard commands for GNU Autotools packages. If you find that a given function is producing errors or does not work as it should under certain circumstances when you attempt completion, try running set -x or set -v prior to attempting the completion again.
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    Mussh is a shell script that allows you to execute a command or script over ssh on multiple hosts with one command. When possible mussh will use ssh-agent and RSA/DSA keys to minimize the need to enter your password more than once.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Debugger for Bash version 3(Bourne again shell). Plugin for Eclipse. Will only work with shell script editor ShellEd.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Kobo XCSoar Launcher

    a customizable boot menu for your Kobo Mini

    Mainly this project aims at easing startup and use of XCSoar (see xcsoar.org) on Kobo Mini. But the scope of use should not be limited solely to XCSoar. The Launcher should be small in code size, reuse most of the original libraries, provide flexible configuration to any application that might be ported to the Kobo Mini. It supports customizable fonts, toolbox-pages, buttons (also graphical), labels, autostart and sleep timers.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Automated_Quiz

    Automated_Quiz

    A Shell Script for Quizzing the whole class of students and log result

    Please download the above zip file and extract it to a secret folder and run the quiz.sh script from that folder in your terminal program, as shown in the youtube videos : https://youtu.be/kQi0XlIaT9M and https://youtu.be/prwKN5DiFp0 You may change the contents of the quiz.txt file to your liking, while maintaining the format of it. Note: Press Enter/Return key after typing on your Terminal, to proceed to the next step, while testing the quiz.sh script. Also, increase the terminal font size to the desired level, before using the script, to view in bigger mode. Google search for linux / cygwin / mac terminal font size to know more about it. LATEST UPDATE : The quiz.sh script is updated now to perform for the whole class of students and log the results into the Students_Score.txt file. Also see this collection of bash scripts : https://sourceforge.net/projects/bash-shell-scripting-in-minute/ and this script : https://sourceforge.net/projects/command-output-to-html-table/
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    A modular framework for implementing a CISCO-like CLI on a *NIX system. Arbitary command menus and actions can be defined using XML files. This software handles the user interaction, and forks the appropriate system commands to perform any actions.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Dreamos is an operating system developed on Sega Dreamcast to be ported to an array of embedded devices. The goal of the project is to be able to run non-ported Unix programs on the Sega Dreamcast and other embedded devices with ease and POSIX compliance
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    LempElf

    A tool to auto-compile & install Nginx+MySQL+PHP on Linux

    A tool to auto-compile & install Nginx+MySQL+PHP on Linux
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Viewglob is a tool to increase the usability of the Unix shell in graphical environments. It watches your shell activity in an xterm and tracks file selections and potential name completions in a GTK+ display showing the layouts of relevant directories.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    icones-magicos

    icones-magicos

    scripts de configuração do velho kurumin

    Conjunto de scripts de configuração que existiam no antigo sistema derivado do Knoppix e do Debian chamado Kurumin. No conjunto encontram-se scripts para BASH, algo em Perl e Python, também algo para SED e possivelmente AWK pode ser usado internamente. Também há as interfaces de controle projetadas para funcionar em KDE.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    DateFuns
    A set of functions for KSH and BASH in a sourceable file. Typical functions include calculating differences between dates, going forward or back any number of days. Works for dates AD only. Some issues will arise when today > 2099...
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    This is a small Shell-Script that Updates Programs for Linux. It will only work on Systems that support 'apt-get'. Source-Code is provided as a .txt file, and a .sh file. (The 'Source' .sh file lets you keep your Version and the original separate).
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    A short & sweet BASH script for rotating and archiving Apache log files. Easy to modify and use. Keywords: Log, Rotate, Apache, Archive, Backlog
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    pathmgr is a script that helps manage environment variables in bash. Persistently edit variables with commands like 'path edit APP_HOME'. Change vars used in your path and then reload with 'path load PATH'. And there is more...
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    Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute

    Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute

    Learn Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute using this Collection of Script

    Learn Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute using this Collection of Scripts, which are Real World Examples, ranging from a simple Date Based Theme to a Standalone Kiosk Type User Input Forms. The Learning is based on a "Observe and Understand Strategy", which means you run these scripts, observe their outputs, understand the script that generates them and learn the whole thing. These Scripts cover almost all the basics of bash shell scripting and summarizes them in the last script for user convenience. Also see this script : https://sourceforge.net/projects/automated-quiz and this script : https://sourceforge.net/projects/command-output-to-html-table/ Notes: 1. You can use Free Programs like 7-zip to open and extract this tar file to your home folder, if your OS does not have a default application 2. Check Google for further inputs on any command usage or to achieve anything further 3. You may ignore errors caused by date command on your OS, due to difference in syntax 4. Practise
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    Cygwin-lite is a subset of the Cygwin tools plus a HTML User's Guide (see homepage), designed for people new to GNU software, especially bash. The self-executable installer fits on a 1.44MB floppy disk.
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