System Shells for BSD

Browse free open source System Shells and projects for BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source System Shells by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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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: 3,222 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: 1,092 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 3,043 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: 281 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 50 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
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    Downloads: 12 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: 10 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
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    Downloads: 5 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.
    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.
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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp.
    Downloads: 6 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: 10 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: 6 This Week
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    env-switcher effectively allows users to manipulate the environment loaded for all shells (including non-interactive remote shells) without manually editing their startup dot files -- something that users traditionally have difficultly doing properly.
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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.
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    command-line utility for issuing SQL to relational databases via the JDBC API
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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: 1 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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    Zenipex Library
    The Zenipex Library is a game development framework, created with the goal of allowing someone with some knowledge of C++ to create 3D games for platforms including Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. OpenGL and Direct3D 9 are both supported.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Personal File Manager for Linux/Unix
    pfm is a curses-based file manager in Perl. PLEASE NOTE: this project has moved to github. Find the latest version at: https://github.com/ruittenb/p-f-m
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    TinyTcl is a tiny version of Tcl, for small footprint machines and embeddable/rommable applications. It is derived from Tcl 6.7 and compiles to less than 60K, 10X smaller than Tcl 7 and Tcl 8.
    Downloads: 4 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: 4 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: 4 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: 1 This Week
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    Genjutsu is a programming language designed for extending C/C++ applications. The syntax is akin to Scheme's. Genjutsu is optimized for distributed object systems and designed to make such applications easy to write. Included is a shell, gjsh.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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