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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git
http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/
A POSIX-compliant, and small, shell. See also sh.
Since it’s creation for Debian, this has become the standard “vanilla shell”.
ShellCheck is a very valuable tool.
Software > Scripting Languages >
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https://www.zsh.org/
A shell.
Though not usually available for a Linux distribution, it’s exceptionally powerful enough that I insist upon it.
Default for macOS.
aka Z shell
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This is the “base language” for shell scripting under Linux.
This is generally known as “the vanilla shell”.
My scripts are hosted in a git repository.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090228194818/http://hotwire-shell.org/
An object-oriented “hypershell“.
2020-01-16 — I found a cache of 0.723 from 2007, it looks like it’s also abandoned and didn’t become a fork.
2008-12-30? — Seems interesting, but has some clumsy bits.
Software >
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https://fishshell.com/
Why use fish? One word, from the fish design document: discoverability. This is the one thing which has held me back from transitioning my mindset from my old DOS CLI days to the Linux CLI.
See also Zsh > zsh syntax highlighting, which is fish-like.
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Software > Scripting Languages >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
A ubiquitous shell. The default for almost all Linux distributions.
Random notes on this software.
TODO – there are a lot of other notes in deep archives
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(on Wikipedia)
https://4dos.info/ (Klaus Meinhard’s Homepage)
The Windows version was called 4NT, but later renamed to TCC/LE
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See also Batch file programming
