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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: 2,139 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: 1,136 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: 354 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 907 This Week
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    win-bash

    Bash for MS Windows

    win-bash is port of the GNU bash for Microsoft Windows NT based systems. It is independent from the cygwin library and any other non-standard DLL and does not need any registry variables. win-bash is based on bash_nt from Mountain Math Software. The active development of the project has been discontinued, mainly because of the old age of the code. There are more modern and more bug free alternatives today, which we recommend to use.
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    Downloads: 126 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 73 This Week
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    The Doszip Commander

    The Doszip Commander

    TUI file manager (NC clone) with built-in Zip for DOS and Windows

    The Doszip Commander is an LFN-aware TUI file manager (NC clone) with built-in Zip and UnZip for DOS and Windows.
    Downloads: 29 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: 11 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: 58 This Week
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    rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp.
    Downloads: 17 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: 30 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: 4 This Week
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    Blackbox for Windows is an alternative shell for Microsoft Windows. It is based stylistically on the Blackbox window manager for the X Window System, however it does not use the same codebase except for the gradient rendering code.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    this is a very primitive dos multitasking gui i think it will help alot of people with window management it also comes with some example progams
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    HTerminal

    HTerminal

    A new, fast and powerful system shell! Written in pure C!

    A new system shell, which is (in some regards) stronger than even Windows Command prompt, made in pure C. This terminal is fairly new, and doesn't require any complex installing process. You just download it, and then immediately use it! HTerminal has an improved console interface with modern buttons. It only has 28 commands, but it is useful none the less! And, if you're already reading this, then why not give it a try? It is completely free and takes up less than 1 MB of space + you don't even have to install it. It is ready to be used the second you download it! And, worst case scenario, you just stop using it. And if you enjoy our app, give it a rating, and maybe tell us about newly discovered bugs! It is much appreciated because it gives feedback that helps us improve HTerminal for you.
    Downloads: 3 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: 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: 10 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: 11 This Week
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    Seal is a free, open source 32-bit GUI written primarily for DOS compatible systems.
    Downloads: 6 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: 4 This Week
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    Mirdir allows to synchronize two directory trees in a fast way. Only the differences between the two sets of files are copied while the excess files/directories in the destination tree are removed (unless there was an explicit request to keep them).
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    The Wizard's Apprentice is an application that allows you to ask questions from a script. It uses Windows dialog boxes in the so-called Wizard style: dialogs asking one question at a time, with a Back button, a Next button and a Cancel button.
    Downloads: 2 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: 3 This Week
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    ButterflyOS is a very simple operation system for the Atmel AVR Butterfly board. It's based on the AvrX multitasking scheduler, created by Larry Barello. A byte-code program for ButterflyOS, can be sent and managed through the serial interface.
    Downloads: 3 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: 3 This Week
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