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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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    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: 47 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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    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: 51 This Week
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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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    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: 27 This Week
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    Kubetail

    Kubetail

    Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods

    Bash script that enables you to aggregate (tail/follow) logs from multiple pods into one stream. This is the same as running "kubectl logs -f " but for multiple pods. Just download the kubetail file (or any of the releases) and you're good to go. Note that you may need to run compinit for zsh to pick-up the changes in the competition after having upgraded from the non-abbreviated installation. If you're using a ZSH plugin manager, you can install kubetail as a plugin. kubetail itself doesn't have filtering or highlighting capabilities built in. If you're on MacOSX I recommend using iTerm2 which allows for continuous highlighting of search terms, good scrolling capabilities, and multitab arrangements. Another useful feature of iTerm2 is the "timeline" (cmd + shift + e) which lets you display a timeline in your own local timezone next to the logs (that are typically in UTC).
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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: 16 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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    pipestatus - source file for UNIX/POSIX shell that allows to obtain an exit status of every program in a pipe.
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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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    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
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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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    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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    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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    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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    System_42

    Ultra-Lightweight Superior Calibre Linux Distro

    A SuperSimple x86_64 Micro Linux ASCII Desktop Distro Unpack 'theTool-v1.tar.gz' to an empty, mounted, ext2 partition. Boot a small, simple 4.2 kernel and use the ext2 partition as rootfs. Also unzip cc, sys, and root... A very small LFS-style Linux distro with kernel, uClibc, gcc, emacs, theTool, and an rc. Designed to bootstrap g++. Roll-your-own distro, bring tarballs. Notes for the current dist: 1. Edit the '/etc/fstab', Add link from /psu to /proc 2. Enable extra stuff by changing grps in /System42/lib.sh. 3. Update path of compiler in /etc/profile... 4. Build (binutils) gcc-4.7.2 with c++. 5. ...Could build gcc-11, linux7. 7. Get txt.tar.gz, an emacs/editor, or use sed. Note the kernel: '/.System42'. Please post in the forum 'kconfig', V0 -- kernel4.2(embedded), gcc 4.7.2, has no ip4 + no nls. V1 -- kernel4.2(generic), gcc++ 4.9.2, has ip4 + nls. ACPI + EFI + vfat + isofs + usb. ok. V2 -- ??? gcc-16, Linux-7.0 Thanks, Dr
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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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    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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    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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