Open Source C++ System Shells

Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others. Note: The software available here is not the latest version. Visit the new website www.classicshell.net to download the latest version and to access the new forums and documentation.

Process Manager for Windows is a smart Task Manager that lets you manage priority, transparency, visibility of your processes with few clicks. It lets you kill one process or all processes in with just shortcut key and let you gain control of your unresponding windows computer and let you regain all the resources back, of course when killing apps you always have the risk of losing the unsaved data. ================= This tool flourished from 2008 to 2013, and was downloaded over 200K times, However, it was decommissioned in 2013 by the sole developer Arif Ali Saiyed This tool was free with optional donations to milaap.org that raised about $1400 and just that small amount helped 15,372 needy people through microlending and created a new source of income stream for 3401 entrepreneurs. Check out the link below to see the impact you all made by donating. https://milaap.org/users/6877/impact

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.

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.

Access your remote files over SFTP directly from Windows Explorer and 'My Computer'.

A Windows Installer Database To XML Bi-Directional Converter. The command line tool msi2xml converts Windows Installer Databases (.msi) to text based XML files. The complementary tool xml2msi reconstructs the .msi from the XML file.

KonsolScript is an embeddable scripting runtime for games, tools, automation, and AI-driven applications. Add a live scripting layer to any C++ application. Hot-reload behavior, patch running apps, and orchestrate AI workflows - without rebuilding or redeploying the binary. Ship once. Evolve forever. Key capabilities: - Embed into any C++ app with a single header - Hot-reload scripts at runtime without restarting - AI-safe: validate or reject scripts before execution - Orchestrate LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama) in .ks scripts - Built-in: String, File, JSON, CSV, Math, Regex, and more - Plugins: HTTP, SQLite, MySQL, TCP, Redis, Crypto, JWT, Zip - Push behavior updates to remote instances over TCP Use cases: - Scriptable game engines (hot-patch rules mid-session) - AI event bridges (natural language to live app behavior) - Automation pipelines (CI, log triage, file processing) - LLM orchestration workflows Docs: https://konsolscript.sf.net/kookbook.html

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.

FARPlus is an extensive library of C++ classes facilitating plugin development for FAR Manager.

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.

GeoShell is a Windows Shell Replacement. It replaces the standard 'Start Menu', 'Desktop', 'Task Bar' and 'system tray' of windows with a smaller, faster, and more configureable program, with an extensible bar-oriented minimal interface.

This is Michael Mutschler's famous mp3 shell extension, also available for Windows7 and 64 bit.

This program is a simple shell. chdir, echo, mkdir,rmdir,cat, history, variables, a little help, ... are supported. For more info see the changelog! There's also a script installer/uninstaller. (you can run it using GabySH!!!). Win32 Plateform.

A graphical interface on top of /bin/sh for visually minded people. This project desperately needs help. Even small pieces of feed back are deeply appreciated

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.

Find And Execute (FAE) is a small tool I wrote to recursively execute a tool on many files. It deals with spaces and weird characters in names and paths where other tools or methods fail. Which is why I wrote it in the first place ;)

Download it for free for any use!

RemCom is RAT [Remote Administration Tool] that lets you execute processes on remote windows systems, copy files, process there output and stream it back. It allows execution of remote shell commands directly with full interactive console.

This project is implemented entirely in C++ without external dependencies. Windows Native Unix Shell (wnus prompt) (pronounced Wenus) brings the power and familiarity of bash sh ash commands and common terminal utilities to native Windows, with full NTFS support and Windows API integration. . It contains 342 fully implemented commands built-in , encompassing file managements operation and so much more. It has a comprehensive help system. This doesn't require WSL to work, or any other outside compatibility layer. Just download and manage files like you would in bash. It requires git, gcc, g++, and docker exes in path if you wish to use them. otherwise you do not need them for wnus to run. Windows 10 or Windows 11 highly recommended. Screenshot are of older version the app still looks the same, Now sh has access to all built-in commands from subshell.

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".

A small, portable shell written in C++. This project is intended as an exercise to improve my programming skills. The goal of this project is to create a DOS-like shell that cross-compiles on Linux and Windows.

This project is a simple Qt library extension that is used to retrieve the Google page rank of any public web page. You can use the library capability asynchronously which means you can send a request and a little later you get a message with the answer which you continue to do other work. The project also includes a command line tool that is used to synchronously get the page rank of a URL. This tool can be used in shell scripts.

SBD is a way of leaving ultra-secure minimal access to a computer, which allows you to run a single command based on a one time key. It is good if you don't want to have an ssh server running all the time, but only want to start it when needed.

FLoM is a free open source distributed lock manager that can be used to synchronize shell commands, scripts and custom developed software. When used in a shell environment, FLoM manages process synchronization in the same way that "nice" manages process prioritization. Shell commands, scripts and custom programs can be synchronized inside a single system or in a network of IP connected systems. FLoM supports different types of abstract resources: simple, numeric, set, hierarchical and transactional sequence. libflom, the library shipped with FLoM, allows you to develop your own application using a simple C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP or Python client API. SSL/TLS security for network communication, X.509 certificates for peer to peer mutual authentication.

KontrolPack is a cross-platform network controller. The objective is to improve system interoperability by connecting computers, regardless of their operating system. Remote access, remote shell, file transfer, etc...