Shell Unix Operating Systems

Shell Unix Operating Systems

Shells are interactive, programmable command interpreters for Unix and GNU-Linux operating systems (OSs). They have text-only interfaces, have some of the properties of programming languages, and are often used for remote access to systems through telnet or SSH client programs.

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Commandline Culture Shock - Advocate essay and guide for new shell users.
Last File Manager - A Midnight Commander clone written by a hobbyist in Python. [Open Source, GPL]
GNV - A Unix environment for the VMS operating system, including a port of the bash shell.
VCL - Boston Business Computing's VCL page.
MKS Toolkit - Ksh and Csh for Win32 environments, as well as a full development environment.
Psh Development Home - Development page for psh, a native perl shell for Windows 95/98/2000 and POSIX operating systems. Documentation and mailing list archives available online, with source and binaries available for download.
Jsh Development Home - Development page for jsh, an OS independent shell with native Java support. Links to download source and binaries.
Softpanorama Open Source University - Open content tutotials and other information on bash, ksh, and zsh.
Korn Shell Home - Korn shell resources and documentation with multiple versions available for download.
JSH Resources - Jsh advocacy page; hosts documentation, binaries and source for jsh, an OS independent shell with native Java support.
Rc, the Plan 9 Shell - A command interpreter for the Plan 9 OS. The article contrasts rc with the Bourne shell, the closest Unix equivalent.
Shell Overview - A high-level examination of the Unix shell.
Dotfile Generator - Program to automatically build configuration files for BASH and C shells.
Scsh - Scheme Shell, broad-spectrum system programming environment for Unix, embedded in R5RS Scheme 48. Supports concurrent system programming, sophisticated I/O and automatic garbage collection for process resources.
HTML Shell - A platform for embedding Unix shell commands and complete shell scripts into a webpage.
comp.unix.shell FAQ - Plain-text FAQ with newsgroup links.
Win32 ZSH - Z Shell ported to Windows 95/98/NT.
Freshmeat: Wapsh - A shell allowing logins to a Unix system from a WAP enabled cellular phone.
MacShell - Unix-like command line interface for the Macintosh, modeled on csh.
Hamilton C shell Product Overview - Hamilton C shell recreates the original UNIX C shell and utilities completely from scratch on Windows NT, Windows 95 and OS/2, adding numerous enhancements.
New Adventure Shell - Script written in ksh/bash/zsh which causes the user's shell to act like a text adventure game.
pdksh - Public domain Korn shell. Manuals and links to download it.
Cygwin - Windows ports of many of the popular GNU software tools, including the BASH and tcsh shells.

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