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There was once Perl Shell, but since its 1.0 release in 2003 not much evolution seems to have been happening.

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Re^2: Has a Windows-based tcsh-like shell been created in Perl yet ...?
by parv (Parson) on Sep 12, 2005 at 08:42 UTC
    version 1.8 is available on CPAN, but its release date was also in Jan 2003.
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Re^2: Has a Windows-based tcsh-like shell been created in Perl yet ...?
by liverpole (Monsignor) on Sep 12, 2005 at 11:12 UTC
    I did try psh, as the documentation sounded promising.  Unfortunately, it didn't work well at all, and threw regex exceptions on every command I tried.  But from its writeup, the objectives sounded like what I needed.

    Here's an example of something I'd like a shell to be capable of (and this would be "piece of cake" in Perl) -- allow a history listing mechanism that not only shows last N commands, but lets you search using a regex for matching commands: 

        h 15                 # Would give the last 15 commands (like "hist
+ory 15")
    h word1 word2 word3  # Would list commands containing all of the g
+iven words
    h /^(vim?|emacs)\b/  # Would list all editing commands (vi, vim, e
+macs)

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    This kind of task would be perfect for the powerful idioms in Perl!
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