a-Shell 17+

Local Unix terminal (with ssh‪)‬

Nicolas Holzschuch

Designed for iPad

    • Free

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Description

Local Unix terminal for iOS. Run Python, Lua, JavaScript, C, C++, TeX, sh and all Unix commands directly on your iPhone/iPad, no network connection required.

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 1.14.0

- 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

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Người VN ghét Trung Quốc ,

default to user installation because normal site-package is not write able

When i type: pip install sklearn
I encountered this problem: Collecting sklearn
Downloading sklearn-0.0.tar.gz (1.1 kB)
Collecting scikit-learn
Using cached scikit-learn-0.24.0.tar.gz (7.4 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/bin/python3 /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/8872B82D-EB1D-4513-BD9D-EA752E07736F/tmp/tmpcxrvp218
cwd: /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/8872B82D-EB1D-4513-BD9D-EA752E07736F/tmp/pip-install-8txm5c6w/scikit-learn_ee9aba0f856845eeb49f0014c54471fe
Complete output (12 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 280, in <module>
main()
File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pe
p517/_in_process.py", line 263, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pe
p517/_in_process.py", line 108, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
backend = _build_backend()
File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pe
p517/_in_process.py", line 83, in _build_backend
ep = os.environ['PEP517_BUILD_BACKEND']
File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/lib/python3.9/os.py", line 682, in __getit
em__
raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'PEP517_BUILD_BACKEND'
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/bin/p
ython3 /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/FDD89F83-6B2F-41AF-B7D6-4707F6F0B8E7/a-Shell.app/Library/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep51
7/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/8872B82D-EB1D-4513-BD9D-EA752E07736F/tmp/tmpcxrvp218 Check
the logs for full command output.

Please help me.

Developer Response ,

Hi,
you might find another_shell@icloud.com, https://twitter.com/a_Shell_iOS or https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell/issues as an easier way to reach us for help and questions.
To answer your question: sklearn requires a C compiler, which is not available on iOS.

Ringo Stark ,

Where is the package manager for this terminal

I can’t find apt, apt-get or yum

Developer Response ,

It's "pkg".

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