Top 20 C Bash Projects

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1. WindTerm

   1 27 32,159 3.1 C

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

   

2. AppSignal

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3. hstr

   2 36 4,464 7.1 C

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

   

4. shc

   3 4 2,245 0.0 C

   Shell script compiler

   

5. ptSh

   4 7 538 0.0 C

   Visually customizable shell utils

   

6. microshell

   5 2 364 4.4 C

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

   

7. tree-sitter-bash

   6 5 331 1.3 C

   Bash grammar for tree-sitter

   

8. PiFM

   7 4 178 6.8 C

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

   

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10. eRCaGuy_hello_world

    8 2 154 8.1 C

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

    

11. loksh

    9 2 133 3.8 C

    A Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh

    

12. termfu

    10 1 109 7.1 C

    Multi-language TUI debugger with custom layouts

    

13. LuaConsole

    11 5 65 0.0 C

    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

    

14. execfuse

    12 1 38 3.9 C

    Turn a bunch of scripts into a FUSE filesystem

    

15. shsub

    13 5 30 5.3 C

    Fast Template Engine for Shell

    

16. SQLite-ICU-MinGW

    14 1 15 9.2 C

    Scripts for building SQLite and SQLiteODBC on Windows with ICU and additional extensions using MSVC or MinGW.

    

17. PoxHash

    15 12 8 7.6 C

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

    

18. minishell

    16 1 6 10.0 C

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

    

19. razzshell

    17 2 3 4.2 C

    A custom Unix shell with unique features

    

20. Ostseepinguin

    18 1 2 7.7 C

    Repo for youtube channel Ostseepinguin.

    

21. cshell

    19 1 1 0.0 C

    Not a seashell ⛵🐚 (by 2KAbhishek)

    

22. advent-of-code

    20 2 0 4.9 C

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

    

23. SaaSHub

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