• CoconutShell

Coconut Shell

Coconut Shell is a Bash-like command shell implemented in Python, with optional integrated terminal GUI.

The integrated shell+terminal is intended to look and behave just like Bash running under GNOME Terminal, with the exception that additional features are provided through the GUI.

See the README file.

Code repositories

• coconut-shell on Github

• My pyrepl branch on Github

Getting started

Get the code:

git clone git://github.com/mseaborn/coconut-shell.git
cd coconut-shell
git clone git://github.com/mseaborn/pyrepl.git pyrepl-repo
ln -s pyrepo-repo/pyrepl pyrepl

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-vte

Run the terminal:

./terminal.py

Run the standalone shell:

./shell.py

See also

• Blog post introducing Coconut Shell

• Blog post about shell features, explaining the motivation for this program

• Home page for Pyrepl, a readline-alike written in Python