a-Shell mini
- Category: Developer Tools
- Versions: 1 archived
- Installable: 1 of 1
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- AsheKube.app.a-Shell-mini
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
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Report an issuea-Shell mini is a complete local terminal emulator, allowing to run most Unix commands on you iOS device. You can transfer files using scp and curl, edit them with vim and ed, process them using grep, awk and sed. Work with git repositories using lg2. Most commands are compiled for iOS native Arm64 format, making them fast and well integrated with iOS underlying BSD Unix.
a-Shell mini includes Python, Lua, JavaScript and webAssembly for programming and scripting. It also includes native ffmpeg and convert for fast image and video conversion.
There are also multiple network utilities: nslookup, ping, whois, ifconfig... Type help for help, help -l to get the full list of commands.
a-Shell mini can be controlled from Shortcuts: run commands in order, process files in a-Shell, get the results as text or files, transfer files to other apps...
a-Shell mini uses iPadOS 13+ “multiple windows” ability, so you can run multiple shells at the same time, with different commands, in different directories. You can edit a file in one window with vim and process it in the other with python.
a-Shell mini is a minimalist terminal, designed to have a very small footprint (less than 250 MB). If you need more commands, please consider a-Shell, which has more Python packages, more JavaScript modules, Perl, make, a C and C++ compiler and TeX.
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Archived Reviews
8 of 18App using for nugget/misaka26, apple lol
Ive tried a bunch of different shell apps. And everyone of them is clunky and gathering your network data and shoving adds in your face This app does whats its supposed to do very efficiently and the gui is great. I can connect to other machines with great ease. its easy to type of and use the arrow keys. This is a big plus. Thanks to the dev for making something that works.
I need it for Ubuntu
Tried many other shell apps. This and the full a-shell are now the only ones I use. No fuss, multiple window support… no need to look at any similar apps, this is the shell you need.
This is about the only app in thousands of things that actually works I use this with a ios Shortcut and works perfectly.
can't run 'python -c "import requests"' in shortcut, show error "no moduled named requests". but it work in shell
how dare you！
Edit: Great developer, it's fixed! 5 stars 🤩 This app and the full a-shell are amazing. The recent update to version 2 makes the keyboard icons comically large on the left side and unusable on the right side. Of course apple doesn't allow us consumers to install a previous version of the app so I'm stuck with this unwanted change. Please add option to use old keyboard buttons, the new ones are such a disaster.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.