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elves/elvish

Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell
Source code at GitHub https://elv.sh/
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Elvish

Section titled “Elvish”

CI status FreeBSD & gccgo test status Test Coverage Go Reference Packaging status

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Elvish is:

  • A powerful scripting language.

  • A shell with useful interactive features built-in.

  • A statically linked binary for Linux, BSDs, macOS or Windows.

Elvish is pre-1.0. This means that breaking changes will still happen from time to time, but it’s stable enough for both scripting and interactive use.

Documentation

Section titled “Documentation”

User docs

User docs are hosted on Elvish’s website, elv.sh. This includes how to install Elvish, tutorials, reference pages, and news.

[Development docs]!(./docs)

Development docs are in [./docs]!(./docs).

Awesome Elvish

Awesome Elvish packages and tools that support Elvish.

License

Section titled “License”

All source files use the BSD 2-clause license (see [LICENSE]!(LICENSE)), except for the following:

  • Files in [pkg/diff]!(pkg/diff) and [pkg/rpc]!(pkg/rpc) are released under the BSD 3-clause license, since they are derived from Go’s source code. See [pkg/diff/LICENSE]!(pkg/diff/LICENSE) and [pkg/rpc/LICENSE]!(pkg/rpc/LICENSE).

  • Files in [pkg/persistent]!(pkg/persistent) and its subdirectories are released under EPL 1.0, since they are partially derived from Clojure’s source code. See [pkg/persistent/LICENSE]!(pkg/persistent/LICENSE).

  • Files in [pkg/md/spec]!(pkg/md/spec) are released under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, since they are derived from the CommonMark spec. See [pkg/md/spec/LICENSE]!(pkg/md/spec/LICENSE).