Sample Unix Shell Scripts

Autoconf project is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a...

Scsh is an open-source Unix shell embedded within Scheme, running on all major Unix platforms including AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, GNU Hurd, Cygwin, HP-UX, Irix, Mac OS X, Solaris, and some others. Scsh is a variant of Scheme 48 (an R5RS compliant new-tech Scheme system) Scsh is designed for writing...

dispatch is a multi-tier architecture object-oriented framework that allows access to methods and variables at the command line and in shell scripts or via a GUI. The project is in an early stage and you will probably not be able to compile it easily or use it for significant work. There are...


Platforms: *nix

Oneliner integrates UNIX shell with Emacs text editor. Oneliner provides various syntax for integration. (e.g. You can connect 'shell pipe' and 'Emacs buffer' directly with simple syntax.)


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A couple of shell scripts to build and install ROX Desktop (http://roscidus.com/) for Debian or Ubuntu. Run them in a terminal like this: ./rox-debian-packages.bash ./rox-ubuntu-packages.bash Then log out, change session to ROX and log in to your new desktop environment. Get some more apps...


Platforms: *nix

BackupNetClone is a set of shell scripts that use rsync to provide convenient snapshot backups with minimal disk usage. The concept is based on rsnapshot but does not require Perl. BackupNetClone was originally tailored to D-Link's DNS-323 NAS device.


Platforms: *nix

log4sh project is a logging framework for shell scripts that works similar to the other wonderful logging products available from the Apache Software Foundataion (eg. log4perl, log4j). Although not as powerful as the others, it can make the task of adding advanced logging to shell scripts...


Platforms: *nix

Haserl is a small cgi wrapper that enables shell scripts to be embedded into html documents. haserl is intended for environments where something like PHP is too big. It was written for Linux, but is known to run on FreeBSD. It compiles to around 10K, and a typical case is to use it to write cgi...


Platforms: *nix

ALSA MIDI Kommander is a DCOP interface exposing many ALSA Sequencer features for shell scripts, Kommander scripts, or KDE programs requiring MIDI sequencer services. A few utilities are included, which can be used both as programming examples and as real work tools. The main program, "kaseq"...


Platforms: *nix

VDB is a tool to put in your shell scripts to edit and display tables. Some people use it for browsing UNIX configuration files and the output of UNIX pipelines.


Platforms: Mac

A set of shell scripts and helper programs (written in C) for creating a html index of your photo collections. Handles resizing, jpg->png conversion, styles and maps for your trips. Highly customizable. To be run in unix-like enviroments.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

Viewglob is a tool to increase the usability of the Unix shell in graphical environments. It watches your shell activity in an xterm and tracks file selections and potential name completions in a GTK+ display showing the layouts of relevant directories.


Platforms: *nix

AGROS is a Unix shell that restricts the user to a limited number of commands. It is a port to C of the limited shell (lshell) by Ghantoos.


Platforms: *nix

Xblock reporter is a set of PHP and shell scripts to insert an exported report from an 8e6 Xstop R3000 appliance into a database, and then output that in a searchable web based format. XBlock Reporter is a shell/PHP/MySQL front end to take the logs from an 8E6 Xstop appliance and store the data...


Platforms: *nix

bkp is a set of shell scripts that use 'tar', 'mt', and 'buffer' to perform a backup to an IDE tape drive, although any kernel-recognized tape drive be it SCSI or whatever, should also work. You can also do backups to a file, though you probably wouldn't use bkp for this. The scripts are...


Platforms: Mac

PCX Firewall is an IPTables firewalling solution that uses Perl to generate static shell scripts based upon the users configuration settings. This allows the firewall to startup quickly, as it does not have to parse config files every time it starts. Whats New in This Release: - All known...


Platforms: *nix

Two simple shell scripts for starting the Seti and Folding command line clients with some instructions on configuring them.


Platforms: Mac

Pipe helps you write, test, and debug shell scripts quickly while using your favorite text editor. It is also ideal for learning scripting languages. You can filter text through your scripts, and see the script source, input, and output simultaneously. In addition to simple text scripts, Pipe...


Platforms: Mac

A progress bar and status viewer for shell scripts, Shellbar is a standard application which accepts "shell scripts" as documents. Simply rename your ".sh" documents to ".shbar" documents. Open the .shbar document, doubleclicking on it, and the shellbar window will appear. The script execution...


Platforms: Mac

A GUI wrapper for rsync, the unix shell script; great for backups. - Now works with 10.4 Tiger


Platforms: Mac