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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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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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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.
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 31 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.
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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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    Extreme Ultimate .bashrc

    Extreme Ultimate .bashrc

    Extreme ultimate .bashrc configuration file for Bash

    Do you want a more robust experience from your bash shell? As a Linux systems administrator, I've been working on this .bashrc file for well over a decade. Over the years, I have searched through scores of others' .bashrc and script files collecting and improving on new ideas and features. This portable drop in bash configuration file can be used on any system anywhere you use a terminal. It will detect most settings on most systems and make sure your environment has every feature available automatically without any additional effort. Do you need a command line cheat sheet? Press CTRL-h for full color help! I think this is the most amazing, ultimate .bashrc file I have ever seen and wanted to share it. To install, execute the following lines in a terminal wget -O ~/.bashrc https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimate-bashrc/files/_bashrc/download wget -O ~/.bashrc_help https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimate-bashrc/files/_bashrc_help/download
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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.
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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.
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    Loggy is a Linux Advanced Logcleaner and a tool to hide you in a linux machine by cleaning or modifing the intruder's ip from all the logfiles in /var bin and txt logs it find logs, with a recursive search in /var/log and a lot of fantastic features
    Downloads: 7 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.
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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
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    Cygwin-lite is a subset of the Cygwin tools plus a HTML User's Guide (see homepage), designed for people new to GNU software, especially bash. The self-executable installer fits on a 1.44MB floppy disk.
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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.
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    oobash

    oobash

    Framework for bash 4

    oo-style framework for bash 4. It provides tools for rapid script development and huge libraries. Written in bash. Source and use...
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    Automated_Quiz

    Automated_Quiz

    A Shell Script for Quizzing the whole class of students and log result

    Please download the above zip file and extract it to a secret folder and run the quiz.sh script from that folder in your terminal program, as shown in the youtube videos : https://youtu.be/kQi0XlIaT9M and https://youtu.be/prwKN5DiFp0 You may change the contents of the quiz.txt file to your liking, while maintaining the format of it. Note: Press Enter/Return key after typing on your Terminal, to proceed to the next step, while testing the quiz.sh script. Also, increase the terminal font size to the desired level, before using the script, to view in bigger mode. Google search for linux / cygwin / mac terminal font size to know more about it. LATEST UPDATE : The quiz.sh script is updated now to perform for the whole class of students and log the results into the Students_Score.txt file. Also see this collection of bash scripts : https://sourceforge.net/projects/bash-shell-scripting-in-minute/ and this script : https://sourceforge.net/projects/command-output-to-html-table/
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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.
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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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    pipestatus - source file for UNIX/POSIX shell that allows to obtain an exit status of every program in a pipe.
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    A short & sweet BASH script for rotating and archiving Apache log files. Easy to modify and use. Keywords: Log, Rotate, Apache, Archive, Backlog
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    10,001 Bash and Bourne Shell Scripts
    The project includes Bash and Bourne Shell utility scripts. Manual pages accompany some of the scripts. The goal of the project is to provide at least 10,001 useful scripts. The official source repository is located at https://github.com/textbrowser.
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    Shell Script based installation utilities to facilitate the building, packaging and installation of custom Database applications, specifically database objects such as tables, stored procedures, data etc.
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    If you're a frequent shell user, BASH Shortcuts will help you navigate smoothly and quickly between frequently-visited directories by enabling you to reference a lengthy directory path using a meaningful keyword (shortcut).
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    Bash Cron Backup (BCB)
    BashCronBackup is a backup script written in bash that can create full database and file backups. Before the database is dumped it will be optimized and repaired. Further, it will delete old backups for you. Available formats: Zip, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2
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    pathmgr is a script that helps manage environment variables in bash. Persistently edit variables with commands like 'path edit APP_HOME'. Change vars used in your path and then reload with 'path load PATH'. And there is more...
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