System Shells for BSD

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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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    Downloads: 2,153 This Week
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    XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,644 This Week
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    CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp
    CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.
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    Downloads: 546 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 812 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 109 This Week
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    TinTin++ Mud Client

    TinTin++ Mud Client

    A MUD client for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

    TinTin++ is a console mud client for any type of text mud or bbs. The mud client's main assets are an easy to learn scripting language, triggers, automapping, and a split screen interface to separate mud output from client input. Installation instructions for Android, iOS, and several other operating systems are available on the website. https://tintin.mudhalla.net
    Downloads: 23 This Week
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    Teuton Preinstalled Environment (TPE)

    Teuton Preinstalled Environment (TPE)

    Alternative PE to rescue, hack or troubleshoot your machine or network

    TeutonPE is inspired by PortableApps.com combined with a PeBuilder compiled Boot USB / CD. Programs can be used, even when there is no OS installed. BB4win is used for Live Menu and as the default Shell.All Plugins are also BartPE & XPE compatible
    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    Babya System is a free shell replacement that is Windows XP compatible and easy to use. It has many useful features-like Babya Discoverer, which has automatic popup ad blocking, and easy access to Windows Control Panel applets.
    Downloads: 31 This Week
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    Remote Desktop Client for the GNOME Desktop. Supported protocols: RDP, VNC, SSH. Configured sessions can be saved to the built in list. Additional programs required: rdesktop, tightvnc, ssh, gnome-terminal. Application can be run with Mono runtime.
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    Downloads: 9 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: 44 This Week
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    KTable is a custom SWT table widget that provides a flexible grid of cells to display data. Since it is custom-drawn, it does not have the restrictions of the native SWT Table control.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Squirrel Shell is a cross-platform alternative to system shells like bash in Linux and cmd.exe in Microsoft Windows. It is based on scripting language "Squirrel".
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    fish is a shell that provides the user with powerful features in a way that is easy to discover, remember, and use.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    xmlsh
    "xmlsh" is derived from the design and goals the unix shell and core commands but with XML expressions and documents added as core features to the shell. xmlsh can be used as a drop-in replacement for scripting xml transformations instead of sh.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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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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    ICMP Shell (ISH) is a telnet-like protocol. It allows users to connect to a remote host and to open a shell using only ICMP to send and receive data. ICMP Shell was written in C for the UNIX environment.
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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Introduction Sudoscriptd/sudoshell are a pair of Perl scripts that provide an audited shell using sudo(8) and script(1).
    Downloads: 11 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: 10 This Week
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    rakudoport
    FreeBSD port of Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler targets the Parrot Virtual Machine.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    scponly is an alternative 'shell' (of sorts) for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges.
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    Downloads: 10 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: 8 This Week
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    LainShell is a textmode network client/server application. With this tool you can remotly manage you file systems, check system status or easly execute some commands in system shell, and more. We have support for Unix/Windows platforms.
    Downloads: 7 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: 7 This Week
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    sux - a wrapper for the standard \'su\' command
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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