Open Source System Shells

Powershell is a cross-platform, task-based command-line shell and scripting language that helps rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows) and processes. It works well with existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data, REST APIs and object models. PowerShell was developed by Microsoft as a task management and configuration management framework. Powershell is designed to let you manage computers from the command line and improve the command-line and scripting environment.

XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.

CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.

A gdb-like debugger for bash

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.

Powerful rule-based command line parser and cofiguration reader. Options can be created using annotations or manually using a powerful API. Options are grouped into hierarchical namespace, allowing sophisticated inclusion, exclusion and grouping based on rules. Supports multiple dialects and automatic document creator such as typical usage and UNIX manpages. POSSIX, GNU, MSDOS command line parser dialects. XML, INI, PROPERTIES configuration file types. Database and general persistance or combination of all the above.

KTable is a custom SWT table widget that provides a flexible grid of cells to display data. Since it is custom-drawn, it does not have the restrictions of the native SWT Table control.

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.

ScriptEchoColor simplifies Linux terminal text colorizing, formatting and several steps of script coding.

TinyTcl is a tiny version of Tcl, for small footprint machines and embeddable/rommable applications. It is derived from Tcl 6.7 and compiles to less than 60K, 10X smaller than Tcl 7 and Tcl 8.

pipestatus - source file for UNIX/POSIX shell that allows to obtain an exit status of every program in a pipe.

An Ant task for user interaction based on forms written in Swing. Enables rapid deployment of forms for connecting user input to properties in an Ant script and menus for launching ant tasks..

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/

Bash-Toolbox is a simple set of functions and instructions that help develop script applications in Bash.

Debugger for Bash version 3(Bourne again shell). Plugin for Eclipse. Will only work with shell script editor ShellEd.

Develepper's Tools (in command line) integrating an extensible core and plugins

getoptions is a C implementation in the spirit of the Perl module Getopt::Long. No more building of getopt_long or getopt structures -- you can specify the option descriptions inline with the call to getoptions. User type handlers are also supported.

Cheval is a platform independent GUI shell for Python written with PyGTK. Featuring tabbed sessions, Syntax highlighting, code completion, call tips, history, auto-indentation, load and save sessions and much more

A replacement for standard console input in .Net and Mono which allows tab-completion and a standard shell-like command history.

Easily Usable Lisp Utilized Interface and Editor aims to make GNU/Linux more enjoyable, and productive in the console environment.

Erc is an interpreted link-oriented language. Majic is a java-based interpreter for Erc, and Majicc is a c++ based compiler for Erc which uses the Majic libraries.

GUI SHell: Python graphical multipurpose shell. Avoid complex shell syntax in favour of a simple syntax with GUI helpers. Uses Python for scripting and extension.

This is a Java Interpreter Shell. This shell allows the user to execute and manipulate Java methods and objects as well as perform the expected operations of a shell, all using standard Java syntax.

JudoScript is a general-purpose, Java scripting, multi-domain scripting tool/language. It combines the powers of declarative scripting for many modern tasks and general object/procedural programming. It is simple, intuitive, practical and powerful.

Everyone is writing shell scripts with his own style, but sometimes it's difficult to understand developpement from an application to another, or between different developpers. By using Norma standards, it well be easy for everyone.