C Bash

Open-source C projects categorized as Bash

Top 20 C Bash Projects

  1. WindTerm

    A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal.

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  3. hstr

    Bash and Zsh shell history TUI suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history.

  4. shc

    Shell script compiler

  5. ptSh

    Visually customizable shell utils

  6. microshell

    MicroShell is a lightweight pure C implementation of shell emulator dedicated for embedded bare-metal systems.

  7. tree-sitter-bash

    Bash grammar for tree-sitter

  8. PiFM

    GUI Based Raspberry Pi FM transmitter with RDS encoding! (by MundeepL)

  9. eRCaGuy_hello_world

    "hello world" demos & templates for various languages, for beginners and experts alike, incl. gcc build commands for C & C++ . I reference this weekly.

  10. loksh

    A Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh

  11. termfu

    Multi-language TUI debugger with custom layouts

  12. LuaConsole

    A next-gen, Cross-Platform [Lua-5.1.x, LuaJIT-2.0, Lua-5.2.x, Lua-5.3.x, Lua-5.4.x]-supporting CLI made to supersede PUC-Lua and LuaJIT CLI

  13. execfuse

    Turn a bunch of scripts into a FUSE filesystem

  14. shsub

    Fast Template Engine for Shell

  15. SQLite-ICU-MinGW

    Building SQLite and SQLiteODBC on Windows with ICU and other extensions using MSVC Build Tools and MSYS2/MinGW

  16. PoxHash

    A block hashing algorithm with implementations in C, Rust, Go, Nim, Python and JS

  17. minishell

    A simplified bash-like shell, with pipes, redirections and variable expansion.

  18. razzshell

    A custom Unix shell with unique features

  19. Ostseepinguin

    Repo for youtube channel Ostseepinguin.

  20. cshell

    Not a seashell ⛵🐚 (by 2KAbhishek)

  21. advent-of-code

    Advent of Code 2019, 2020, 2021, in Bash and/or C. (by braoult)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Bash projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 WindTerm 31,224
2 hstr 4,436
3 shc 2,232
4 ptSh 536
5 microshell 348
6 tree-sitter-bash 311
7 PiFM 172
8 eRCaGuy_hello_world 148
9 loksh 126
10 termfu 108
11 LuaConsole 65
12 execfuse 37
13 shsub 30
14 SQLite-ICU-MinGW 13
15 PoxHash 8
16 minishell 6
17 razzshell 3
18 Ostseepinguin 2
19 cshell 1
20 advent-of-code 0

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