a-Shell 17+
Local Unix terminal (with ssh)
Nicolas Holzschuch
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
a-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.
What’s New
Version 1.15.0
- In-Extension Shortcuts have access to the same information as In-App Shortcuts (bookmarks, Python files, etc)
- ffmpeg updated to version 7.0.0
- LLVM/clang updated to version 18.1.5
- webAssembly commands can now use interactive keyboard input
- fixed multiple bugs.
Ratings and Reviews
Best of its kind
This developer is doing us all such a service with these free, functional and fully featured apps.
I cannot recommend this enough. If you need a terminal, get downloading!
The only feedback I have is there’s an absence of ssh-copy-id at present. Not the end of the world but it would be a nice convenience.
Please Work On VoiceOver Support
I appreciate the effort and thought you've shown so far, but please try Ish to see exemplary VoiceOver support: announces changes as they arrive, allows input using Braille Screen Input, can reach and use the Control switch (without which, of course, I have to force-kill the app just to get a new prompt). That having been said, great app, I'm using it as a turbo-charged Python interpreter, and this and Ish complement each other for maximum pocket Unix power and awesomeness. So thank you.
Task warrior for the win
I love this app - first proper one that allows me to run task warrior on iOS. One thing it's missing: allowing me to store task warrior data in Dropbox/iCloud instead of the obscure container I can't figure out how to sync! Would be great so that I can use it with my macos.
But still - amazing!
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Nicolas Holzschuch
- Size
- 1.6 GB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © Nicolas Holzschuch
- Price
- Free