Wzsh - Wez's Shell

A unixy interactive shell for Posix and Windows systems

Goals

• Be a convenient interactive shell
• Feel familiar to long-time unix users by using the Bourne syntax
• Have discoverable builtins and help
• Run on Windows without requiring cygwin, msys or wsl

Non-Goals

• I don't want to replace /bin/sh or /bin/bash shebang usage. I don't believe in long shell scripts and I don't think wzsh should try to compete in that space. More information

Implementation Status

In no particular order, except that completed items bubble up to the top:

• [x] - Executes simple commands, pipelines, input/output redirection
• [x] - Parameter substitution ($FOO)
• [x] - Globbing and filename generation
• [x] - Basic job control (ctrl-z to background, bg and fg to manage a backgrounded job)
• [x] - Define and execute functions
• [x] - Conditionals of the form true && echo yes and if/then/else/elif/fi
• [x] - line editor functions that can search and match history (ctrl-R!)
• [x] - persistent history and builtins for examining history
• [ ] - looping constructs such as for, while, until
• [ ] - case/esac matching construct
• [ ] - tab completion of commands, filesystem entries
• [ ] - command substitution $(date)