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: 1,791 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: 867 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 900 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: 160 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 90 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: 22 This Week
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    Rootsh is a wrapper for shells which logs all echoed keystrokes and terminal output to a file and/or to syslog. It's main purpose is the auditing of users who need a shell with root privileges. They start rootsh through the sudo mechanism.
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    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp.
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    VOCP is a complete messaging solution for voice modems, with voicemail, fax, email pager, DTMF command shell and Text-to-Speech support, 3 GUIs and a web interface. Send and receive faxes and voicemail, listen to emails and execute programs on the host.
    Downloads: 41 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: 29 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: 7 This Week
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    pipestatus - source file for UNIX/POSIX shell that allows to obtain an exit status of every program in a pipe.
    Downloads: 19 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.
    Downloads: 3 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: 3 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.
    Downloads: 9 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.
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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    The xml-coreutils are simple shell command line tools which operate directly on XML files in a way which is analogous to the classical unix shell commands.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Demos Commander

    This project has moved to Github

    A clone of Norton Commander for Unix. Text-based, full featured file manager intuitive interface. https://github.com/sergev/deco
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    xlayout is a terminal based utility to get and set information about X11 windows and the pointer. Its designed to be easily integrated into bash shell scripts and takes advantage of the X11 protocol to allow it to access remote X11 desktops.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    PowerShell open source cross-platform reimplementation. Works on Windows, WinMobile, WinCE, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc... Provides a rich shell environment for wide veriety of operating systems as well as to provide a hostable scripting engine.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Iron Bars Shell is a restricted Unix shell. The user can not step out of, nor access files outside the home directory. It is written in C for Linux. No libraries used. It is small, fast, secure. Two ascii configuration files for more control.
    Downloads: 4 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: 4 This Week
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    A Unix shell embedded in Scheme.
    Downloads: 2 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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    A VNC Client for J2ME (Java 2 Mobile Edition). This includes a side project, an easy to use, clean java API for the RFB protocall. This project is now dead. Please see: https://sourceforge.net/projects/j2mevncclient/
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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