- Es shell
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developer = Byron Rakitzis, Paul Haahr
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website = The es shell is acommand line interpreter developed by Byron Rakitzis and Paul Haahr, that uses ascripting language similar to therc shell of the Plan 9operating system . It is intended to provide a fully functionalprogramming language as aUnix shell . The bulk of es' development occurred in the early 1990s. A paper on an early version of the es shell was presented at the Winter 1993USENIX conference inSan Diego . [ [http://www.webcom.com/~haahr/es/es-usenix-winter93.html Es: A shell with higher-order functions] by Byron Rakitzis, NetApp, Inc, and Paul Haahr,Adobe Systems Incorporated [Errata note 1] ]A patched version of [ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/es/es-0.9-beta1.tar.gz es-0.9-beta1] which includes job control features, a precompiled binary, additional documentation, a basic
emacs editing mode and other contributed programs is available: [http://burton.samograd.googlepages.com/es-0.9-beta1job-control.tar.bz2 es-0.9-beta1job-control.tar.bz2]ee also
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Comparison of command shells
*Command line interface References
External links
* [http://hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca:8001/mlists/es.html The es shell]
* [ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/es/ FTP archive for the es shell] Includes mailing list archives
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