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From: PerlFAQ Server on 1 Apr 2010 18:00
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq3.pod, which
comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to
reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community
to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete
perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org .

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3.3: Is there a Perl shell?

The "psh" (Perl sh) is currently at version 1.8. The Perl Shell is a
shell that combines the interactive nature of a Unix shell with the
power of Perl. The goal is a full featured shell that behaves as
expected for normal shell activity and uses Perl syntax and
functionality for control-flow statements and other things. You can get
"psh" at http://sourceforge.net/projects/psh/ .

"Zoidberg" is a similar project and provides a shell written in perl,
configured in perl and operated in perl. It is intended as a login shell
and development environment. It can be found at
http://pardus-larus.student.utwente.nl/~pardus/projects/zoidberg/ or
your local CPAN mirror.

The "Shell.pm" module (distributed with Perl) makes Perl try commands
which aren't part of the Perl language as shell commands. "perlsh" from
the source distribution is simplistic and uninteresting, but may still
be what you want.



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are not necessarily experts in every domain where Perl might show up,
so please include as much information as possible and relevant in any
corrections. The perlfaq-workers also don't have access to every
operating system or platform, so please include relevant details for
corrections to examples that do not work on particular platforms.
Working code is greatly appreciated.

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