Open Source Python System Shells

You stuffed the command shell with aliases, tools and colors but you lose it all when using ssh. The mission of xxh is to bring your favorite shell wherever you go through ssh without root access and system installations. Preparing portable shells and plugins occurs locally and then xxh uploads the result to the host. No installations or root access on the host is required. Security and host environment are a prime focus. No blindfold copying config files from local to the remote host. Following privacy and repeatability practices the best way is to fork the xxh plugin or shell example and pack your configs into it. Every xxh repo could be forked, customized, and reused without waiting for a package management system, xxh release, or any third-party packages. Five shells are currently supported and more could be added by the community.

IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most of using Python interactively. Comprehensive object introspection. IPython provides input history, persistent across sessions. Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references. Extensible tab completion, with support by default for completion of python variables and keywords, filenames and function keywords. Extensible system of ‘magic’ commands for controlling the environment and performing many tasks related to IPython or the operating system. A rich configuration system with easy switching between different setups (simpler than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time). Session logging and reloading. Extensible syntax processing for special purpose situations. Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system. Easily embeddable in other Python programs and GUIs. Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The PyCmd project has moved to GitHub: https://github.com/horeah/PyCmd PyCmd is a smart command prompt extension for Windows' cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features of UNIX shells (decent Tab-completion, persistent history, etc.)

lshell is a shell coded in Python, that lets you restrict a user's environment to limited sets of commands, choose to enable/disable any command over SSH (e.g. SCP, SFTP, rsync, etc.), log user's commands, implement timing restriction, and more.

Banshell is a tool to scriptably execute commands on a remote machine. It was designed with the goal of increasing security by only allowing a specified set of commands to be executed.

BCD is a shorthand for "Better CD". It is modeled after "cdargs" utility and allows you to give aliases to frequently used directories and "cd" to them. BCD is cross platform and was tested on Linux, Cygwin and Windows XP.

This game is an MMORPG in various UNIX scripting languages, with a graphical shell accessed by SSH for the client. It will support Linux, Windows, and MacOS X. It is meant to be immersive and allows in-game coding.

Cheval is a platform independent GUI shell for Python written with PyGTK. Featuring tabbed sessions, Syntax highlighting, code completion, call tips, history, auto-indentation, load and save sessions and much more

This is a command line tool that list all registered occurences of a DLL from the windows registry and allows to unregister them all with regsvr32.

An experimental terminal shell project in Python & curses. The aim is to be a command-driven language, with simple english-like grammar but still powerful and easy to do most CLI tasks without having to remember "weird" unix commands.

dfShell is a graphical shell in the style of a data flow composition tool. The programs launched by the shell can have >1 inputs and outputs. Backwards compatible with command line programs that use stdin and stdout.

This software is made with the purpose of making easy the Unix/Linux Server management. Is made completly in Python, making this project as a OS independent. Was tested over Linux and Windows. For documentation go to http://www.life-microsystems.com/index.php/ecommands-documentation

GXP is a parallel/distributed shell, plus a parallel task execution engine that runs your Makefile in parallel on distributed machines. Very easy to install (no need to compile. install it on YOUR machine and use it on ALL machines).

GUI SHell: Python graphical multipurpose shell. Avoid complex shell syntax in favour of a simple syntax with GUI helpers. Uses Python for scripting and extension.

Jail Chroot Project is an attempt of write a tool that builds a chrooted environment. The main goal of Jail is to be as simple as possible, and highly portable. The most difficult step when building a chrooted environment is to set up the right libraries

Jonnux is a Python powered custom system shell. The commands are executed via the Terminal and make the whole command line environment more friendly. Jonnux will only work on the Linux operating system.

An aliased-directory command-line navigation system. Manages a set of user-specified aliases pointing to directories tha allow the user to "jump" from one directory to another using very quickly and efficiently.

this is a server monitoring system written with python 2.5 with pyodbc. this ping,http and SQL a remote server to monitor its up time. any downtime of remote server more than 3 times will insert a record into database. and email will be sent to recipents

MaSheD is here, Work from anywhere; MaSheD is a MAil SHEell Daemon in python. The daemon parses new mails recieved in the mailbox and executes them in a shell returning the output. Just send mails to your email address and MaSheD will do the rest.

A reverse HTTP shell to execute commands on remote machines behind firewalls. Once you run the script on the target machine, it periodically polls its designated server for commands to execute. Traffic traverses firewall as outgoing GET/POST requests.

OrganizerCalendar is a command line utility written in python that will help you organize your upcoming appointments using only command line, so you can use for example ssh to manage your calendar from remote computer.

Petaapan is exploring the opportunities that multi-touch displays present. Initially we are looking at tools to support agile development to provide a concrete target for the investigations.

A cross platform python based command line shell

PuSSH is Pythonic, Ubiquitous SSH, a Python wrapper/script that runs commands in parallel on clusters/ranges of linux/unix machines via SSH, ideally where SSH is configured to use Kerberos, RSA/DSA keys, or ssh-agent as to avoid password authentication.

PyLine is a shell that is designed for users who want a easier alternative to cmd, but it is in its earlier stages, so it may not have as many commands. Works on Linux and Windows, and may work on Mac.