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a-Shell mini

a-Shell mini

Nicolas Holzschuch

Developer ToolsFreev2.0.2
App Store
Rating

4.6

107 ratings

Stars

★★★★★

Last Updated

May 15, 2026

Released

December 9, 2020

What's New

v2.0.2

Multiple improvements over versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1: - single-arrow buttons by default for iPhones that don't have LiquidGlass (iOS 18 and below) - brought back the ability to have the old toolbar on iPads (a fix for iPads where the standard toolbar does not appear) - fix for pickFolder inside other commands - fix for ffmpeg and control-C - fix for escape sequences (\033) in prompt definitions - several fixes for ssh and ssh-agent inside dash - openurl does not percent-encode urls that are already percent-encoded - openurl checks that is has a valid URL

App Info

Developer
Nicolas Holzschuch
Category
Developer Tools
Price
FREE
Version
2.0.2
App ID
1543537943

Description

a-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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81

Low / mo

120

Est / mo

232

High / mo

Based on107 ratings
Assumed rating rate1.4%
App age66 months

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