Murex is a shell, like bash / zsh / fish / etc however Murex supports improved features and an enhanced UX.
Unlike other typed shells, Murex can still work natively with existing CLI tools without any tweaks.
Murex’s unique approach to type annotations means you have the safety and convenience of working with data formats besides just byte streams and string variables, while still having compatibility with every tool written for Linux and UNIX over the last 50 years.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Built-in support for natively manipulating various file formats such as JSON, TOML, YAML, CSV, and commonlog. This allows seamless integration and manipulation of data in various formats.
- Expressions – treats variables as expressions. This lets you perform calculations and evaluations directly within the shell.
- Support for additional type information in pipelines, which can be used for complex data formats like JSON or tables. Meaning all of your existing UNIX tools to work more intelligently and without any additional configuration.
- Usability improvements such as in-line spell checking, context sensitive hint text that details a commands behavior before you hit return, and auto-parsing man pages for auto-completions on commands that don’t have auto- completions already defined.
- Smarter handling of errors and debugging tools. For example try/catch blocks, line numbers included in error messages, stdout highlighted in red and script testing and debugging frameworks baked into the language itself.
- Extension framework that lets you design modules or prebuilt extensions. This allows for customization and additional functionality. The built-in package manager lets you share your configuration, import other modules, and port your set up between different machines.
Website: murex.rocks
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Laurence Morgan
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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