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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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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 255 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 472 This Week
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    Babashka

    Babashka

    Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

    Avoid switching between Clojure and bash scripts. Enjoy your parens on the command line. Leveraging GraalVM native-image and the Small Clojure Interpreter, babashka is a self-contained and instantly starting scripting environment. Babashka comes with scripting batteries included: tools.cli, cheshire, babashka.fs, babashka.process, java.time and many more libraries and classes. Babashka scripts work on linux, macOS and Windows. Besides the built-in libraries, babashka is able to load libraries from source, tapping into the world of already existing Clojure libraries. Babashka supports real JVM threads and like Clojure, supports futures and dynamic thread-locally bound vars. Babashka features a built-in task runner which covers the most popular use cases of make, just and npm scripts. Babashka can shell out to other CLI programs like you are used to in bash. It goes one step further and offers seamless integration with other binaries using the pod protocol.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Minimal Linux Live

    Minimal Linux Live

    Minimal Linux Live (MLL) is a tiny educational Linux distribution

    Minimal Linux Live is a tiny educational Linux distribution, which is designed to be built from scratch by using a collection of automated shell scripts. Minimal Linux Live offers a core environment with just the Linux kernel, GNU C library and Busybox userland utilities. Additional software can be included in the ISO image at build time by using a well-documented configuration file. Minimal Linux Live can be downloaded as a pre-built image, built from scratch or run in a web browser by using a JavaScript PC emulator.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    fish

    fish

    The user-friendly command line shell

    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.
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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: 49 This Week
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    Kobo XCSoar Launcher

    a customizable boot menu for your Kobo Mini

    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.
    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    bash-completion

    bash-completion

    Programmable completion functions for bash

    bash-completion is a collection of command-line command completions for the Bash shell, a collection of helper functions to assist in creating new completions, and a set of facilities for loading completions automatically on-demand, as well as installing them. The easiest way to install this software is to use a package; refer to Repology for a comprehensive list of operating system distributions, package names, and available versions. Depending on the package, you may still need to source it from either /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc (or any other file sourcing those). If you don't have the package readily available for your distribution, or you simply don't want to use one, you can install bash-completion using the standard commands for GNU Autotools packages. If you find that a given function is producing errors or does not work as it should under certain circumstances when you attempt completion, try running set -x or set -v prior to attempting the completion again.
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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: 15 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: 4 This Week
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    A simplistic object oriented extension to the unix shell. Woosh is to bash what Objective C is to C.
    Downloads: 11 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: 9 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: 6 This Week
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    LempElf

    A tool to auto-compile & install Nginx+MySQL+PHP on Linux

    A tool to auto-compile & install Nginx+MySQL+PHP on Linux
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Viewglob is a tool to increase the usability of the Unix shell in graphical environments. It watches your shell activity in an xterm and tracks file selections and potential name completions in a GTK+ display showing the layouts of relevant directories.
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    This is a small Shell-Script that Updates Programs for Linux. It will only work on Systems that support 'apt-get'. Source-Code is provided as a .txt file, and a .sh file. (The 'Source' .sh file lets you keep your Version and the original separate).
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Bash Navigator eliminates the requirement that users must memorize long directory names, provides forward/back/next/previous navigation keys, and supports a rudimentary form of project management without reducing the flexibility of the BASH shell.
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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.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Sakura is a Knowledge Navigator and User Interface for UNIX, which implements HyperMedia and its own windowing and packing system, both in the main program and in an extensive API for Tcl and other languages.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    A simple shell script that will help you keep track of all your SSH connections.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Yum Repo Sync is a shell script that synchronizes a local directory with a repository mirror using rsync. Yum Repo Sync provides one easy way to create and maintain a local repository to YUM.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    am_utils

    Linux utils by AM

    una serie di piccoli/grandi script e programmini di supporto alla vita linux e la sua shell. * acpiStat (visualizza stato alimentazione batteria e risorse memoria) * backup.sh (script bash di backup per partizioni LVM con supporto crittografia e backup incrementali) * makecd.sh e makedvd.sh (con un comando masterizza quello che ti pare!) * netload (aluta il carico di rete di una interfaccia) * title.sh (modifica il titolo della finestra xterm) * xinfo (usa osd_cat per visualizzare a schermo in modo continuo statistiche di sistema) * myOrphan (usa deborphan e genera un report HTML) * altro ancora...
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    env is an alternative to /usr/bin/env with additional configuration options. env has been designed to meet the standard functionality of /usr/bin/env to facilitate integration of this binary into existing project environments.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    icones-magicos

    icones-magicos

    scripts de configuração do velho kurumin

    Conjunto de scripts de configuração que existiam no antigo sistema derivado do Knoppix e do Debian chamado Kurumin. No conjunto encontram-se scripts para BASH, algo em Perl e Python, também algo para SED e possivelmente AWK pode ser usado internamente. Também há as interfaces de controle projetadas para funcionar em KDE.
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