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psh is a fast and and flexible shell with a Perl 5 syntax. Because it is written in Perl 5, psh has ready access to Perl's regular expression engine and flexible data structures. Additionally psh is very fast at mathematical operations, including floating point arithmetic which Bash lacks entirely.

The Perl Shell is very "old school" in that it is not possible to configure it to use a Perl syntax newer than the interpreter's default. Thus, new features such as say are not available with a Perl 5.x interpreter, consistently psh has an early-90's Perl feel to it. Long standing Perl users may find this design decision "retro" but those coming from the perspective of either the modern Modern Perl movement or the Raku programming language may find the experience to be jarring or limiting.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for app-shells/psh Combines the interactive nature of a Unix shell with the power of Perl

examples	Install examples, usually source code
readline	Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants
test	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2022-07-02 21:49 More information about USE flags

Emerge

root #emerge --ask app-shells/psh

Configuration

Files

• ~/.pshrc - the user's shell profile.

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean --verbose app-shell/psh

See also

• Bash — the default shell on Gentoo systems and a popular shell program found on many Linux systems.
• Busybox — a utility that combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single, small executable.
• Perl — a general purpose interpreted programming language with a powerful regular expression engine.
• Raku — a high-level, general-purpose, and gradually typed programming language with low boilerplate objects, optionally immutable data structures, and an advanced macro system.