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Bashly is a command line application written in Ruby that generates bash command line tools from a YAML configuration describing commands, subcommands, arguments, and flags. It produces a standalone script that parses and validates user input, provides help messages, and runs per-command code kept in separate files. Optional standard library functions include color output, config file management, YAML parsing, and bash completions.
Polari is a simple IRC client designed to integrate with GNOME 3. The project is hosted on GNOME's GitLab and distributed under the GNU Library General Public License v2 only.
Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform shell. Its language is a superset of Python 3 with shell functionality and commands integrated. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, Jupyter, Android, Raspberry Pi and Nix, and includes shell primitives such as pipelines and input/output streams. Extensions called xontribs add integrations with frameworks, developer tools and themes.
Elvish is a shell with useful interactive features built in and a scripting language. It is distributed as a single statically linked binary for Linux, BSDs, macOS and Windows. Scripts use data structures and functional programming, errors are caught before execution, and command failures abort execution by default.
Maestral is an open source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux. It offers a command line interface, a lightweight native GUI for macOS and a Qt-based interface for Linux, and can sync multiple Dropbox accounts. It supports .mignore patterns to exclude local files from syncing. As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained.
Oils is a project offering OSH, which runs existing shell scripts, and YSH, intended for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell. Both live inside the same 2 MB oils-for-unix binary. Published documentation includes a getting-started guide, a YSH tour, an Oils reference, and comparisons of YSH with shell idioms.
