Welcome to the Caldera 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 |
2.02 |
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 the GNU 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.
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/uw7/shells/bash/
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/shells/bash/
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.
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/uw7/shells/
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/shells/tcsh/
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.
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/shells/zsh/
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/uw2/shells/zsh/
ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/
http://sunsite.auc.dk/zsh/
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Last Updated: Friday Jul 06, 2001 at 15:00:18 PDT
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