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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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    Downloads: 2,663 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,459 This Week
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    bash debugger

    bash debugger

    A gdb-like debugger for bash
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    Downloads: 133 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: 13 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: 5 This Week
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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: 37 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.
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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Debugger for Bash version 3(Bourne again shell). Plugin for Eclipse. Will only work with shell script editor ShellEd.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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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: 10 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: 8 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: 3 This Week
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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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    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 highly modular client remote/web services library written in Python supporting multiple protocols and transports through a unified interface. All modules are as independent as possible from each other to ensure high re-usability.
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    scmd

    scmd

    SCMD is a Search Command script

    SCMD stands for Search Command and it’s actually a very simple bash script that allows you to download new commands and also share your own commands.
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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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    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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    bics - (B)ash (I)nteractive (C)lipboard (S)cript is a bash script that performs clipboard functions. An interactive script that does not need a gui to function. bics will add/delete/clear it's clipboard. Provides a quick way to keep notes with no gui
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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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    The Bash Programming Environment (BPE) is a set of useful shell/CGI scripting functions for the GNU Bash shell. Each group of functions is sorted into a separate library. Libraries include a hashmap, MySQL API, XML Parsing, CGI manipulation & more.
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    Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute

    Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute

    Learn Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute using this Collection of Script

    Learn Bash Shell Scripting in a Minute using this Collection of Scripts, which are Real World Examples, ranging from a simple Date Based Theme to a Standalone Kiosk Type User Input Forms. The Learning is based on a "Observe and Understand Strategy", which means you run these scripts, observe their outputs, understand the script that generates them and learn the whole thing. These Scripts cover almost all the basics of bash shell scripting and summarizes them in the last script for user convenience. Also see this script : https://sourceforge.net/projects/automated-quiz and this script : https://sourceforge.net/projects/command-output-to-html-table/ Notes: 1. You can use Free Programs like 7-zip to open and extract this tar file to your home folder, if your OS does not have a default application 2. Check Google for further inputs on any command usage or to achieve anything further 3. You may ignore errors caused by date command on your OS, due to difference in syntax 4. Practise
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