Oils Packaging Guidelines - oils-for-unix/oils GitHub Wiki
- Latest release: https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/
- Please call the package
oils-for-unix
- There is no more "oil". The project is called Oils, or "Oils for Unix"
- Reasons for the Big Renaming to Oils, OSH, and YSH (March 2023)
- The
oils-for-unix
package will install the executableoils-for-unix
- It will also install symlinks
osh
andysh
to that executable, in the style ofbusybox
.osh
is very compatible with POSIX sh and bash, whileysh
flips some switches to make it a coherent new language.
- Description: Oils is a Unix shell with JSON-compatible structured data. It's our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime.
- Longer Description:
bin/osh
runs POSIX shell scripts and many bash scripts.bin/ysh
is an improved shell language.
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