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Welcome to the Skunkware replacement shells section. This section contains replacement login shells which users may find a bit easier to use than the standard system shells.

Package List

Name Description Version OSR5 UnixWare
bash GNU Bourne Again Shell 2.04 Yes Yes
tcsh C shell with name completion and command editing 6.07 Yes Yes
zsh The Z-Shell 3.1.5 Yes Yes

 

GNU Bourne Again Shell

bash is GNU's sh replacement, with many extra features built in. bash has advanced command line editing and completion features, is mostly POSIX compliant, and has full built-in help.

UnixWare Distribution http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/shells/bash/

OpenServer Distribution http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/shells/bash/

Original source code ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/

 

Enhanced C Shell

tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell, csh(1). It is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. It includes a command-line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C-like syntax.

Further details are available via the tcsh README.

UnixWare Distribution http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw7/shells/

OpenServer Distribution http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/shells/tcsh/

Original source code ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/

 

The Z-Shell

zsh is yet another shell replacement. This shell is highly customizable, has very flexible command line completion and editing (even more so than those features found in bash) and is very well documented. Due to the huge number of options, zsh can be confusing for novice users, but once set up is a very powerful shell.

OpenServer Distribution http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/osr5/shells/zsh/

UnixWare Distribution http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/uw2/shells/zsh/

Original source code ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/

Package Home page http://sunsite.auc.dk/zsh/