a-Shell

Local Unix terminal (with ssh)

Published by: Nicolas Holzschuch
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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.
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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.

  • Is a-Shell legit?

    ✅ 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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User Rating

4.72 out of 5

29 ratings in Italy

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a-Shell Reviews

Great app

mauro.987 on

Italy

Love it. I finally found what I was looking for…

amazing and super useful

simone& on

Italy

i would argue this is the most useful app on the app store right now though add more codecs to ffmpeg pls

Great

simone& on

Italy

useful af

Breaking changes

Edo_____ on

Italy

I love the app, big thanks to the developer. However, I have a specific use-case where I need to use git, and after every update there is a breaking change which requires the user to change something in the authentication process to GitHub with a public key. Can this stop please? Honestly I don’t know what goes wrong, so I have to wait every time for someone else to have the same problem I have.

Almost perfect

e-caste on

Italy

It doesn’t support ssh -J to proxyjump. I’ve checked all my configs and they work, and I’ve tested the same command on my Mac, where it works without a issue. The command: ssh -J bastion destination The error message: banner exchange: Connection to UNKNOWN port 6 5535: Broken pipe

FringedCorgi1730 on

Italy

For install new application ?

Safety issue

Matteo.1234. on

Italy

- password shown in clear text when ssh-ing - keyboard does not contain ctrl/alt/meta/esc hence unusable

Add support for npm

gianlucadand on

Italy

Great app kudos to the developer, it would be top with npm support.

Thanks

Samuele 😂 on

Italy

Thanks dude, your work is really appreciated. Will try to donate ASAP <3

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.

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Keywords

a-Shell Competitors

Name
WebSSH - SysAdmin Tools
SSH, SFTP, Telnet, Tunneling
Termius: Terminal & SSH client
SFTP, Mosh, Telnet, PuTTY
Working Copy - Git client
for GitHub, GitLab and more
Pyto IDE
Python, C/C++
iSH Shell
Linux in your pocket
ServerCat - SSH Terminal
Monitor & Shell & Automation
xTerminal - SSH Terminal Shell
SSH Client, Shell Console Term
Terminal & SSH
SSH, SFTP, snippets, terminal
Blink Shell, Build & Code
The Pro tool for developers
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