PlayerPiano amazes your friends by running Python doctests in a fake interactive shell. See the PlayerPiano PyPI page for more info, or this blog post for a demo.

This project is part of the GNU Project. Rush is a Restricted User Shell. It is intended for use with ssh, rsh and similar remote access programs. Using a sophisticated configuration file, Rush gives you complete control over the command lines that users execute, usage of system resources, such...

GemVt is a GNU Emulator of a Virtual Terminal. GemVt is the GNU Emulator of a Virtual Terminal for the X Window System written on top of the Gtk+ toolkit (much like rxvt). GemVt is released released under the GNU GPL


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Emulator, Gemvt, Gnu, Terminal, Virtual

Dotkit is a set of shell scripts, small "package" files (dotkits), and an organizing plan to help you set up, maintain, modify and understand a working Unix environment, for one person or for an entire site.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Entire, Environment, Maintain, Modify, Organizing, Person, Scripts, Shell, Understand, Working

mirdir is a tool that allows you to synchronize two directory trees in a fast way. Only the differences between the two sets of files are copied while the excess files/directories in the destination tree are removed (unless there was an explicit request to keep them).


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Directory, Fast, Mirdir, Synchronize, Tool, Trees, Way

Aardvark Shell Utils package is a collection of 3 utilities designed to aid the user when working with shell scripts, or from the shell command line. All three accept their input on the command line, or from standard input, and thus they can be piped (|) with other commands. These three commands...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Aardvark, Aid, Collection, Designed, Package, Scripts, Shell, User, Utilities, Utils, Working

Bash Navigator Toolkit (BNT) is a set of platform independent facilities that enable easy navigation within the Bash (or even Korn) shell. These functions allow simple navigation within the file system, as well as deployment of automated scripts to iterate directories and perform various activities.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Activities, Automated, Deployment, Directories, Iterate, Perform, Scripts, Simple, System

The v6scripts collection of shell scripts, aka command files, provides some working examples of osh and sh6 scripting. The entire collection may be downloaded (v6scripts-20100428.tar.gz, checksums, tree browser) and installed for personal or general use (or studied as is). The INSTALL script in...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Automatically, Command, Converts, Files, General, Glob, Information, Install, Installed, License, Personal, Readme, Refer, Script, Studied, System

prwd is a command-line tool that prints a reduced working directory for your prompt shell (PS1). The path can be shortened using any of the following: * aliases * max length and filler characters * newsgroup style All of this is driven by your ~/.prwdrc file. The reason for prwd is that...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Command, Configuration, Depend, Directory, Display, Files, Hprwdp, Ignoredinstallationmakesudo, Installsetupthis, Lines, Shell, Starting, Syntax, Working

AutoConnectSSH is a Gtk application developed in Perl to automate SSH connections. Feature list for AutoConnectSSH 2.0.0 Cool GUI interface Separate profile for users in their home directory Allows to change colors for terminal Added QuickConnect Keys can be managed Reconnects...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Application, Autoconnectssh, Automate, Connections, Developed

Cirkuit is a KDE4 graphical user interface for the Circuit macros by Dwight Aplevich, which is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents. Cirkuit builds a live preview of the source code and can export the resulting images in EPS, PDF,...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Appssudo, Aptget, Build, Buildcd, Buildcmake, Cirkuit, Cirkuit Mkdir, Cirkuit Targzcd, Debianbased, Epsto, Ghostscript, Install, Kdelibs Dev, Macros, Packages, Required, Systems, Texlivebasebin, Texlivelatexbase

Vellum is a minimalist build tool you can understand in an hour that allows you to write your builds in a simple build description language, and make plugins in Python that are easily loaded. Vellum is an alternative to make, but designed to be very minimalist and simple to use. You can describe...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Balances, Build, Builds, Commands, Description, Design, Easily, Executable, Hacks, Implicit, Language, Minimalist, Primary, Python, Quotno, Simple, Vellum 0 17

JCarder is an open source tool for finding potential deadlocks in concurrent multi-threaded Java programs. JCarder does this by instrumenting Java byte code dynamically (i.e., it is not a tool for static code analysis) and looking for cycles in the graph of acquired locks. The only requirement...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Agentjava, Analysis, Analyzer, Community, Information, Jcarder, Jcarder 1 0 1, Jcarderjarstep, Jcarderstep, Licensehow, Program, Released, Resultjava, Source, Visualize

lopster-tools is a set of tools for use with Lopster that allows users to view statistics for download and upload transfer, incomplete and finished files, how many MB are downloaded or uploaded, and the difference between down- and upload, amongst other features.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Download, Lopster, Lopster Tools, Set, Statistics, Tools, Users, View

Quasi project is a Python shell which supports pluggable "contexts" for non-Python commands, such as OS commands, MySQLdb queries and external programs. The smart-eyed reader will have noticed the use of the built-in quoted() method in the examples above. There are a number of these that are...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Access, Dicts, Objects, Reference, Syntax, Values

xurgency is a software with you will get notified in taskbar if processes like emerge, wget or updatedb are finished. Terminal/console utility to set the 'urgency hint' to inform the user if a process like emerge, make, wget or updatedb is ready. The window manager will inform the user if the...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Ready, Wget Updatedb Finished

metashell is a lightweight, user friendly, intelligent, interactive command-line shell. The amazing difference with metashell lies in its ability to determine a file's datatype, and automatically run your desired applications. metashell uses file datatypes (mime types) to determine a files type,...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Intelligent Command Line Shell, Interactive, Metashell Lightweight, User Friendly

QConsole is an utility which allows you to login in any Symbian devices and perform certain operations in a more easy and fast way than the standard GUI. Running applications (especially gdbstub) with parameters was especially what drove with to write QConsole. It is a Syambian executable (exe)...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Build, Devices, Login, Operations, Perform, Qconsole, Symbian, Time, Utility

Shell Script Loader is a framework for shell scripts that provides functions that can be used to load, include or call module shell scripts. Supports most shells including bash, zsh, ksh and shells based from original sh. A compiler can also be used.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Based, Compiler, Framework, Functions, Include, Including, Loader, Module, Original, Script, Scripts, Shell, Shells, Supports

osgish [os-gish] is based on a Perl shell on the client side which communicates via HTTP/JSON to a special agent bundled deployed on the target platform. Beside standard features provided by the various existing OSGi shells outside it provides some unique features to make life easiers when...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Bindings, Color, Command, Configurable, Configuration, Consistent, Emacs, Facility, Groups, Highlighting, Https, Including, Installupdate, Operation, Remote, Shortcuts, Switchable, Syntax, Theme, Upload