United Statesa-Shell is a complete local terminal emulator, allowing to run most Unix commands on you iOS device. You can transfer files using scp and curl, edit them with vim and ed, process them using grep, awk and sed. You can work with git repositories using lg2. Most commands are compiled for iOS native Arm64 format, making them fast and well integrated with iOS underlying BSD Unix. a-Shell includes Python, Lua, Perl, JavaScript, C, C++ for programming and TeX (texlive 2023, with Tikz and LuaTeX) for text processing. There are also multiple network utilities: nslookup, ping, whois, ifconfig... Type help for help, help -l to get the full list of commands. a-Shell can be controlled from Shortcuts: run commands in order, process files in a-Shell, get the results as text or files, transfer files to other apps... a-shell uses iOS 13+ “multiple windows” ability, so you can run multiple shells at the same time, with different commands, in different directories. You can edit a file in one window with vim and process it in the other with python. Compile your C or C++ programs to webAssembly using clang or clang++, and execute the resulting binary. A complete webAssembly SDK is included (WASI-libc). a-Shell is the complete version. If you need a smaller app, and you don't need a C compiler, a TeX engine, or numpy and matplotlib, there is a-Shell mini.
A shell.
It's a local, non-emulated shell. Simple. Just wish it had APT or pacman.
United Statesa-shell is quite capable of many Unix-like activities
After running both iSH and a-shell, I found more capabilities in a-shell. Plus, with local and remote shell capabilities, there is a better method for running Linux or Unix commands, sftp’d over from a cloud server and run in the a-shell command line. I was able to run inxi from a recent sftp grab and piped results to a local text file. ISH cannot do that yet, as ssh and sftp are not yet implemented.
United StatesPerfect for PDFLaTeX on the go
After a lot of searching for mobile LaTeX environments that are no longer maintained and are no longer in a useful state, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a-shell through a YouTube video talking about generating PDF files from iOS. It may not have a fancy autocomplete editing environment but generating PDF documents is a breeze. I wish it was a lot easier to find.
United StatesVery good app
Quite useful, would recommend
United States?good
How do you access Python?
United StatesArm Macs
Heck Yeah Baby!
United StatesImpressive
Especially given all the constraints on iOS/iPadOS, this is really well done 🙏
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- moved to texlive-2024 - changed the texlive installation process to something more reliable - fixed an issue in Perl that prevented tlmgr from downloading more than 300 packages - changed the C SDK generation process for faster start-up - fixed an issue that prevented running more than 1278 commands in-extension, or more than 852 commands in-app. - fixed an issue where the app would sometimes run through command history instead of scrolling vertically - fixed an issue with cursor position in editors in llines with spaces or tabs - added option "--reset" to jsc
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