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Shell

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.

Sites in Shell

Midnight Commander
a combined shell and file manager. Part of the GNOME project.

Commandline Culture Shock
Advocate essay and guide for new shell users.

pdksh
Public domain Korn shell. Manuals and links to download it.

Korn Shell Home
Korn shell resources and documentation with multiple versions available for download.

Shell Overview
A high-level examination of the Unix shell.

comp.unix.shell FAQ
Plain-text FAQ with newsgroup links.

HTML Shell
A platform for embedding Unix shell commands and complete shell scripts into a webpage.

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.

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.

RC Shell
Unix port of the Plan-9 OS rc shell.

VCL Man Page
Manual page for VCL, a VMS shell emulator for Unix.

Shell Configuration Files
Example startup files for bash, csh, ksh, sh and zsh.

Open DCL Lite
Unix/GNU-Linux DCL emulator.

VCL
Boston Business Computing's VCL page.

AE Shell
A standards-compliant Bourne Shell clone for Unix. Site includes source, binaries and documentation.

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.

Dotfile Generator
Program to automatically build configuration files for BASH and C shells.

Last File Manager
A Midnight Commander clone written by a hobbyist in Python. [Open Source, GPL]

scsh
A broad-spectrum systems-programming environment for Unix-like operating systems. Based on R5RS Scheme.

MUD-Shell
Shell written to operate like a text adventure game or MUD. Open source implementation in Perl.

New Adventure Shell
Script written in ksh/bash/zsh which causes the user's shell to act like a text adventure game.

Perl Shell
Home page for PSH, a native perl shell for Windows 95/98/2000 and POSIX operating systems. Documentation and binaries available for download.

Wapsh Home Page
A shell allowing logins to a Unix system from a WAP enabled cellular phone.

Introduction to the Unix Shell
Steve Bourne's original introduction to the original /bin/sh Bourne Shell.

JSH Resources
Jsh advocacy page; hosts documentation, binaries and source for jsh, an OS independent shell with native Java support.

VXDCL
A Unix port of the OpenVMS DCL interactive shell and command language.

Cygwin
Windows ports of many of the popular GNU software tools, including the BASH and tcsh shells.

GNV
A Unix environment for the VMS operating system, including a port of the bash shell.

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.

Introduction to Bash
Introduction to the bash shell under BeOS.

MacShell
Unix-like command line interface for the Macintosh, modeled on csh.

MKS Toolkit
Ksh and Csh for Win32 environments, as well as a full development environment.

nShell-Pro
Source distribution of nShell, a Unix-clone command line interface for the Macintosh.

Win32 ZSH
Z Shell ported to Windows 95/98/NT.