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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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    Downloads: 741 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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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 38 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.
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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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    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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    Downloads: 35 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 27 This Week
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    INim

    INim

    Interactive Nim shell / REPL / Playground

    INim is an interactive shell (REPL) for the Nim programming language, providing a platform for executing Nim code snippets in real-time.
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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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    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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    Nash

    A simple shell, like Bash, written in Rust.

    A simple shell, like Bash, written in Rust.
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    Extreme Ultimate Tmux

    Extreme Ultimate Tmux

    Portable tmux config with menus, app launcher, tray icon. No plugins.

    Do you want the power of a fully loaded tmux plugin framework without installing a single plugin? One file. No plugin managers. No dependencies. No setup. Drop it on any machine and it just works. What you get feels like a desktop app: a menu system with submenus, a 21-app launcher, searchable help, a built-in scratchpad, a system dashboard, and a fully clickable status bar. All in a beautiful adaptive interface that auto-detects your fonts and scales from Nerd Font icons to plain ASCII on a TTY. The status bar knows when you are in SSH and moves out of the way. The clipboard works everywhere including over SSH. Every feature degrades gracefully. Nothing breaks if a tool is missing. To install: wget -O ~/.tmux.conf https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultimate-tmux/files/_tmux.conf/download Also includes: system tray icon (tmux-tray), terminal launchers for 5 terminals, and a WezTerm config. Companion: Extreme Ultimate .bashrc (sourceforge.net/projects/ultimate-bashrc)
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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
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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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    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.
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    SIS (System Information Script)

    SIS (System Information Script)

    Simple & useful benchmarking bash shell script for GNU/Linux distros.

    SIS is a very simple and portable, system info bash script, work on most GNU/Linux distributions. Tested on Ubuntu and its based distrobution (Eg. Kubuntu), Debian and Fedora. SIS is a tool to help any linux system administrator, to benchmark, test and monitor Linux machines. With a simple UI and easy deployment, you can know most important basic information about the machine you're working on; From installed Drivers, OS & Kernel version, Current Process running etc. SIS is a handy and simple tool to use on most of GNU/Linux Machines.
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    Script Echo Color

    Script Echo Color

    Terminal text colorizing and simplifies script coding.

    ScriptEchoColor simplifies Linux terminal text colorizing, formatting and several steps of script coding.
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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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    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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    nfacct bash completion

    Programmable completion specification for nfacct (netfilter.org)

    Programmable completion specification for nfacct (netfilter.org)
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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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    xen-shell2

    simple XEN guests / cloud management console shell

    XEN guests / cloud management shell which provides secure, simple and easy (remote, multi-user, multi-level) console based access to XEN DomU management - with simple bandwidth monitoring.
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    yume is a menu system with user-variable shell commands. For example, yume -bu date ls -ex -do 'ls -al' 'cal -3' makes a menu with 3 fixed buttons and 2 editable ones that can execute when the mouse cursor crosses them. yume3 is Gtk-based.
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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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