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Oils – new UNIX shell

Oil is a new Unix shell. It runs your existing shell scripts, and it’s a new language for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

It’s billed as an upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime.

This is free and open source software.

Website: www.oilshell.org
Support: Wiki, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Andy Chu
License: Apache License v2.0

Oil is written in Python and C. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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