a-Shell

Local Unix terminal (with ssh)

Published by: Nicolas Holzschuch

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.
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    Yes, a-Shell is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.

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    ✅ The a-Shell app appears to be high-quality and legitimate. Users are very satisfied.

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    a-Shell is free.

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Why does this not have nano?

Some Guy from space on

United States

why is nano not included? if it doesn't have gpl standard utilities, this isn't very useful.

Amazing toolkit!

Jackal X on

United States

The app I could never find. Local terminal with more. Awesome app! Super handy.

Runs a terminal directly on iPad

Jcenmiami on

United States

This is a pretty impressive terminal. I can run python programs directly on the terminal. Support for pip, SFTP, SSH, etc.

Some feature suggestion

dptub on

United States

Salute the developer. Hi,I have some feature suggestions, and I don't know if you can add them in the future. 1. It has its own directory and can be accessed directly in the software. 2.You can directly run the specified file by accessing your own directory, so you don't need to enter the running instructions. 3.When we share code from third party software, the program to the software can provide the ability to view the code and run the code. The above is my personal advice, of course, whether to implement these features is entirely up to you, but no matter what changes will be made in the future, I hope this development tool will be better and better here.Finally, I hope you can have a good mood every day.🤭

A power users tool

Subcomandante on

United States

Having the power of Unix, a Python interpreter, and integration with Shortcuts unlocks power that is not usually available to iPad users. Really really cool.

It is a shell, I’ll say that for it.

itsreallyjustsamk on

United States

A 4096 bit rsa key generates much faster on here than iSH. If you copy a cat’d public key and paste it into your authorized keys through another ssh app you’ll probably run into denied permission issues when trying to connect. For reference, this appeared to be a clipboard issue when pasting the cat outputted a-shell key into the authorized keys file of a server already connected via Termius. Tap support could be better. Cursor could stay in prompt when a selection occurs but doesn’t. So far it’s not a great SSH tool. More of a novelty shell for limited local play.

Ganz in Ordnung

Macappleguy on

United States

A lot of work went into this. Shell seems stable. Now to read more about this shell and shell scripting abilities.

I love this app

Abcdef10000 on

United States

This is truly one of the most empowering apps on the AppStore enabling my phone and iPad to be much more powerful. This is something that should be native to iOS and iPadOS but I'm very grateful that Nicolas developed this tool !

Great app for vim & python users

SquEu on

United States

I have been using it for educational purposes. I am currently learning the basics of python through the “Python For Everybody” course on Coursera. I was able to write short scripts on a-shell to pull and process data from the web. My only problem so far is that I am struggling to install scipy on a-shell. Hopefully I will find a solution to that problem soon.

Won’t let me remove it

Soul.Embargo on

United States

No way to remove the app once it’s downloaded. Wont allow me to change the directory so it’s stuck on documents. Pretty worthless.

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