A good emulator for Vim
I love how it allows moving my cursor with finger, even has acceleration. This is quite of a common shortcoming for other Vim / shell apps.
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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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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Is a-Shell free?
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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5 out of 5
12 ratings in Hong Kong SAR China
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a-Shell Reviews
add a button to hide/unhide keyboard
can you add a button to hide/unhide keyboard? it will display more content…thanks
upload file issue
great shell terminal! when I use shortcut upload feature, if the file name ends with long extension, the file will be greyed out in the file browser, it maybe ios security issue, can you fix it from the app side?
Excellent.
This is a excellent application, but I have a question about that I have no right to 'mkdir folder'.
It is a shell, I’ll say that for it.
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
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
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
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
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.
Love it!
So happy I found this app. Keep up the great work.
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WebSSH - SysAdmin Tools
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Termius: Terminal & SSH client
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Working Copy - Git client
for GitHub, GitLab and more
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Pyto IDE
Python, C/C++
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iSH Shell
Linux in your pocket
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ServerCat - SSH Terminal
Monitor & Shell & Automation
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xTerminal - SSH Terminal Shell
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Terminal & SSH
SSH, SFTP, snippets, terminal
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Blink Shell, Build & Code
The Pro tool for developers
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App Info
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Publisher
- Nicolas Holzschuch
- Languages
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish
- Recent release
- 1.15.6 (1 month ago )
- Released on
- Oct 25, 2019 (5 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Germany, China, Japan, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, India, Taiwan, Brazil, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, South Korea, Mexico, Czechia, Austria, Sweden, Hong Kong SAR China, Poland, Türkiye, Slovakia, Vietnam, Ukraine, Thailand, Norway, Hungary, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Denmark, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Belarus, Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Nigeria, Croatia, Colombia, Peru, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Slovenia, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Lithuania, Kuwait, Iceland, Tunisia, Portugal, Pakistan, Nepal, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Ecuador, Algeria, Dominican Republic, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia
- Last Updated
- 3 days ago