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Elvish is an expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell, combined into one seamless package. It runs on Linux, BSDs, macOS and Windows.

Demos

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Powerful Pipelines

Text pipelines are intuitive and powerful. However, if your data have inherently complex structures, processing them with the pipeline often requires a lot of ad-hoc, hard-to-maintain text processing code.

Pipelines in Elvish can carry structured data, not just text. You can stream lists, maps and even functions through the pipeline.

@ttyshot home/pipelines

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  <h2>Intuitive Control Structures</h2>
  <p>
    If you know programming, you probably already know how
    <code>if</code> looks in C. So why learn another syntax?
  </p>
  <p>
    Elvish comes with a standard set of control structures: conditional
    control with <code>if</code>, loops with <code>for</code> and
    <code>while</code>, and exception handling with <code>try</code>. All
    of them have a familiar C-like syntax.
  </p>
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  @ttyshot home/control-structures
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  <h2>Directory History</h2>
  <p>
    Do you type far too many <code>cd</code> commands? Do you struggle to
    remember which <code>deeply/nested/directory</code> your source codes,
    logs and configuration files are?
  </p>
  <p>
    Backed by a real database, Elvish remembers all the directories you
    have been to, all the time. Just press <kbd>Ctrl-L</kbd>
    and search, as you do in a browser.
  </p>
</div>
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  @ttyshot home/location-mode
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  <h2>Command History</h2>
  <p>
    Want to find the magical <code>ffmpeg</code> command that you used to
    transcode a video file two months ago, but it is buried under a
    million other commands?
  </p>
  <p>
    No more cycling through history one command at a time.
    Press <kbd>Ctrl-R</kbd> and start searching your entire
    command history.
  </p>
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  @ttyshot home/histlist-mode
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  <h2>Built-in File Manager</h2>
  <p>
    Want the convenience of a file manager, but can't give up the power of
    a shell?
  </p>
  <p>
    You no longer have to make a choice. Press
    <kbd>Ctrl-N</kbd> to start exploring directories and
    preview files, with the full power of a shell still under your
    fingertip.
  </p>
</div>
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  @ttyshot home/navigation-mode
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# Run Elvish - [Download](get/) a binary - [Source code](https://github.com/elves/elvish) on GitHub - [Try Elvish](https://try.elv.sh) directly from the browser (Beta) # Use this Site Start your Elvish journey in this very website! - [Learn](learn/) the fundamentals and interesting topics - Peruse the definitive [reference](ref/) documents - Read the [blog](blog/) for news, tips, and developers' musings - Subscribe to the [feed](feed.atom) to keep updated

# Join the Community Join any of the following channels -- they are all all bridged together thanks to [Matrix](https://matrix.org)! - Telegram: [Elvish user group](https://t.me/+Pv5ZYgTXD-YaKwcP) - IRC: [#elvish](https://web.libera.chat/#elvish) on Libera Chat - Gitter: [elves/elvish](https://gitter.im/elves/elvish) - Matrix: [#users:elv.sh](https://matrix.to/#/#users:elv.sh) # More Resources - [Awesome Elvish](https://github.com/elves/awesome-elvish): Official list of unofficial Elvish modules - [@ElvishShell](https://twitter.com/elvishshell) on Twitter