es (Unix shell)
| Developer(s) | Byron Rakitzis, Paul Haahr |
|---|---|
| Repository | |
| Type | Unix shell |
| Website | wryun |
The es shell is a command line interpreter developed by Byron Rakitzis and Paul Haahr, that uses a scripting language similar to the rc shell of the Plan 9 operating system. It is intended to provide a fully functional programming language as a Unix shell. The bulk of es' development occurred in the early 1990s. A paper on an early version of the es shell was presented at the Winter 1993 USENIX conference in San Diego.[1]
A patched version of es-0.9-beta1 which includes job control features, a precompiled binary, additional documentation, a basic emacs editing mode and other contributed programs is available: es-0.9-beta1job-control.tar.bz2
The Xs shell is a fork of es with bugfixes, code cleanup and better readline integration and syntax improvements. Kes is a fork of es compatible with Linux and Mac OS X.
See also
References
- ^ Es: A shell with higher-order functions by Byron Rakitzis, NetApp, Inc, and Paul Haahr, Adobe Systems Incorporated [Errata note 1]
External links
- The es shell
- FTP archive for the es shell Includes mailing list archives
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