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Scripting: Higher-Level Programming for the 21st Century ( John K. Ousterhout ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-03)

TCSH on Windows XP? [2002/03/15]

A Real Bourne Shell for Linux? [2001/11/17]

What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like? [2001/07/06]

Pipes In GUI's [ 2000/08/17]

What is the correct way to initialize shellvariables? [ 2000/08/01]

Natural Language CLIs? [ 2000/07/29]

Why Can't the Command-Line be More Standardized? [ 2000/01/22]

Why do people compare "X$foo" in the shell instead of just "$foo"? [ 2000/01/01]

Why does the Bourne shell not let me redirect both stdout and stderr to the same place? [ 2000/01/01]

Command Shells - The Quirks, The Pros and The Cons [ 1999/11/11]

Why does make reject '$(shell blah)' in this makefile I'm porting to BSD? [ 1999/11/01]

Hey, don't curly braces really mean that sh should execute the enclosed stuff in the same shell, not subshell? [ 1999/09/01]

Why does my script work on commercial unixes but not on free unixes? [ 1999/07/01]

Here are a few general shell aliases [ 1999/06/01]

How can I redirect the output of a batch file? []

How can a batch file tell whether it's being run in a DOS box under Windows? []

How can a batch file test existence of a directory? []

Questions and Answers

tee(1) - pipe fitting {oss}

cd(1) - change working directory {oss}

whereis(1) - locate programs {oss}

which(1) - locate a program file (or files) in the path {oss}

apropos(1) - locate commands by keyword lookup {oss}

script(1) - make typescript of terminal session {oss}

lastcomm(1) - show last commands executed in reverse order {oss}

getopt(1) - parse command options {oss}

false(1) - Return false value. {oss}

true(1) - Return true value. {oss}

test(1) - Condition evaluation utility. {oss}

apply(1) - apply a command to a set of arguments {oss}

xargs(1) - construct argument list(s) and execute utility {oss}

intro(1) - introduction to general commands (tools and utilities) {oss}

sh(1) - Public domain Bourne shell {oss}

csh(1) - a shell (command interpreter) with C-like syntax {oss}

ksh(1) - Public domain Korn shell {oss}

awk(1) - pattern-directed scanning and processing language {oss}

pwd(1) - return working directory name {oss}

m4(1) - macro language processor {oss}

whatis(1) - describe what a command is {oss}

time(1) - time command execution {oss}

screen - is a terminal multiplexer that runs several separate 'screens' (ttys) on a single character-based terminal. {GPL,GNU}

Bash - , the Bourne Again SHell, is compatible with the Unix 'sh' and offers many extensions found in 'csh' and 'ksh'. {GPL,GNU}

Midnight Commander - is a user friendly and colorful Unix file manager and shell, useful to novice and guru alike. {GPL,GNU}

Shellutils - are: 'basename', 'chroot', 'date', 'dirname', 'echo', 'env', 'expr', 'factor', 'false', 'groups', 'hostname', 'id', 'logname', 'nice', 'nohup', 'pathchk', 'printenv', 'printf', 'pwd', 'seq', 'sleep', 'stty', 'su', 'tee', 'test', 'true', 'tty', 'uname', ' {GPL,GNU}

mudsh-20010311 - An "intelligent" game-like shell

portoseguro-0.4 - Launch applications by clicking on an icon bar

shc-3.2 - A shell script "encoder"

sash-3.4 - A Stand-Alone shell combining many common utilities

44bsd-csh-20001106 - The traditional 4.4BSD /bin/csh C-shell

vshnu-1.0008 - New Visual Shell

perlsh-0.009_1 - New shell made entirely out of a Perl script

argparse-1.0.0 - A tool for commandline parsing for shell scripts

unquote-1.0.b3 - Execute a command with safely quoted arguments

eshell-emacs20-2.4.2 - Command shell implemented in emacs lisp

pbs-2.2p11 - Batch job queueing system

penv-1.2.b2 - Set the environment accoring to the current working directory

xbindkeys-1.5.0 - Allows you to launch shell commands under X with your keyboard

xcmd-1.8 - Xcmd is a front-end for starting programs under X11

pash-2.2 - A full-screen shell (commander GUI) for *nix.

osh-001127 - An implementation of the UNIX 6th Edition shell.

ksh93-20020317 - Official AT&T release of KornShell 93

flash-0.9.4 - A ncurses-based restriction shell

E-buttons-0.2 - A simple epplet that contains several buttons used to launch programs

fep-1.0 - A general purpose front end for command line editing.

ile-2.0_1 - An Input Line Editor that wraps itself around programs

mshell-1.0 - A Unix menuing shell.

splitvt-1.6.5 - Run two shells in a split window/terminal

openldap-1.2.13 - Open source LDAP client and server software

rc-1.6 - A unix incarnation of the plan9 shell

es-0.9.b1_1 - An extensible shell, derived from plan9's rc

pdksh-5.2.14 - The Public Domain Korn Shell

scsh-0.6.0 - A Unix shell embedded into Scheme, with access to all Posix calls

asfiles-1.0 - X11 file manager. Dockable in WindowMaker. [X]

dfm-0.99.9 - OS/2 - like Desktop-File-Manager for X Window System

ezfm-0.4.3 - EZWGL-based file manager for X Window System

offix-files-2.4 - File bar from OffiX

xfm-1.4.3 - The X File Manager

bricons-3.0 - Quick start up utility for applications on an X display. [X]

Do.C - Specify multiple command line commands {oss,msdos}

tcsh.4.3 - Tcsh for 4.3 CSH {oss}

sxt-sh-jobs - Diffs for SystemV /bin/sh job control with sxt's {oss}

ile - an input line editor {oss}

reactivekbd - Command-line editor with predictions {oss}

rmgetopts - remove getopts(1) from shell scripts {oss}

bourne - Bourne shell enhancements (history,tilde,job control) {oss}

display - Execute command repeatedly, display output {oss}

sets - Perform "set" operations on command line arguments {oss}

sh.ulimit - Add ksh-style 'ulimit' to 4.2BSD /bin/sh {oss}

tpipe - A "tee" with multiple outputs {oss}

pucc-mk - Purdue shell turbo charger and manual installer {oss}

cu-shell - A "shell" for CU, Kermit, etc. {oss}

turbo_patch - Fix to turbo_tools, SHELL.PAS transmitted with error {oss}

multitee2.0 - Send multiple inputs to multiple outputs {oss}

getoptprog - Getopt program for scripts {oss}

korner - Convert (some) csh scripts to ksh scripts {oss}

startup - flexible UNIX shell session initialization, {oss}

csh.patch - Two CSH patches {oss}

mush6.3kit - Mush (mail user's shell) upgrade kit, version 6.3 {oss}

simple_menu-3.1 - a simple shell-level menu system, V3.1, {oss}

cu-shell.note - Ignore the copyright on the cu-shell posting {oss}

veos-2.0 - The Virtual Environment Operating Shell, V2.0 {oss}

ssh-1.7 - Steve's SHell (a small csh-like shell), V1.7 {oss}

ptyshl - shell layers via pseudo-ttys {oss}

cscript - Record interactive session (using pipes) {oss}

xargs - Execute a command with many arguments {oss}

shellforms - Forms interface for shell scripts {oss}

forktest - Find security holes in shell-escapes {oss}

ulimit_sh - Add ksh-style 'ulimit' to 4.2BSD /bin/sh {oss}

atty - A command-line editor (for BSD) {oss}

idutil - command-line i'face to cuserid(3), getpwnam(3), &etc {oss}

lb - a load balancing interface to "rsh" {oss}

lome - Line oriented macro processor {oss}

TCSH - Enhanced version of the Berkeley C shell (csh). {GPL}

XAsk - small program to make popups in shell scripts {x,GPL}

tkRunIt - A simple, but featureful run dialog box for executing commands without an xterm {x,GPL}

clig - command line interpreter generator {GPL}

Xrun - A Gtk+ based program to run commands with a history. {x,GPL}

Zsh - Powerful UNIX shell {BSL}

FileRunner - simple and efficient filemanager {x,free to use but restricted}

X-Files {x,Shareware}

Directory Stack - Directory Stack is a very CSH-like pushd/popd for both Korn and Bourne shells

Setlevel.C - Query user from file, return answer in ERRORLEVEL (MSDOS) {oss}

Envy - Shell-independent environment variable management {Artistic}

FlexButtonZ - Make desktop buttons in X from shellscripts. [X] {GPL}

miniBar - Small, Fast, Single click program launcher. [X] {GPL}

dialog-0.6z.tgz - format the display of a shell script

dialog-0.6z.tgz - format the display of a shell script

NetPipes - The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. {oss}

vfsh - Virtual Fluxating SHell - a randomizing shell to other shells

gtk-shell - GTK interface for the shell {GPL}

Applications and Utilities

getusershell setusershell endusershell (3) - get legal user shells {oss}

libtecla-1.4.0 - Interactive command line editing facilities

p5-String-ShellQuote-1.00 - Perl module for quote strings for passing through the shell

Shell - Make some shell commands directly available to your Perl program. The Shell module is bundled with Perl. [Perl] {oss}

String::ShellQuote - Quotes strings for safe passage through shells. [Perl] {oss}

Libraries and Functions

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PERL - related

Communication Scripting

See also: Process Creation and Control - (starting and controlling child and peer processes)

Up to Specific Programming Languages

Up to Activity specific - Gateway topic to software used in specific activities. (application software, business, professional, science, education, etc.)

Shells - - Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).

Yahoo! Computers and Internet:Software:Programming Tools:Scripting

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