Greetings monks,

I was browsing around and found Linux Magazine article on Zoidberg, a shell written in Perl.

From the Zoidberg homepage:

"A modular Perl shell written, configured, and operated entirely in Perl. It aspires to be a fully operational login shell with all the features one normally expects. But it also gives direct access to Perl objects and data structures from the command line, and allows you to run Perl code within the scope of your command line. "

I think this looks quite interesting, and will be checking it out when I get home.
Some of you may have already seen this, but I thought I would post this as I think it may be of interest to some of you, even though its still in a Beta stage of development.

Regards

Martin

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Re: Zoidberg, a Perl shell
by targetsmart (Curate) on Jul 02, 2009 at 06:21 UTC
    I works like a gem in *nix environment.
    but I tried to install this in MsWin32, it failed with errors, I tried to clean up some, but got stuck up here
    C:\Perl\cpan\build\Zoidberg-0.96-J2r7ha\bin>perl -IC:\Perl\cpan\build\
+Zoidberg-0.96-J2r7ha\lib zoid
POSIX::tcgetpgrp not implemented on this architecture at C:\Perl\cpan\
+build\Zoidberg-0.96-J2r7ha\lib/Zoidberg/Contractor.pm line 75.
Zoidberg was not properly cleaned up.

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    I already had issues with installing this module under windows using cpan, some tests failed.
    If you point-out an alternative shell like this implemented in perl with vi-mode on the commmand line support available. It is very much appreciated
    I got this zoidberg idea a while ago Vi mode in Psh

    Vivek
    -- 'I' am not the body, 'I' am the 'soul', which has no beginning or no end, no attachment or no aversion, nothing to attain or lose.
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