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Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell

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# Elvish

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Elvish is:

-   A powerful scripting language.

-   A shell with useful interactive features built-in.

-   A statically linked binary for Linux, BSDs, macOS or Windows.

Elvish is pre-1.0. This means that breaking changes will still happen from time
to time, but it's stable enough for both scripting and interactive use.

## Documentation

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User docs are hosted on Elvish's website, [elv.sh](https://elv.sh). This
includes [how to install Elvish](https://elv.sh/get/),
[tutorials](https://elv.sh/learn/), [reference pages](https://elv.sh/ref/), and
[news](https://elv.sh/blog/).

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Development docs are in [./docs](./docs).

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Awesome Elvish packages and tools that support Elvish.

## License

All source files use the BSD 2-clause license (see [LICENSE](LICENSE)), except
for the following:

-   Files in [pkg/diff](pkg/diff) and [pkg/rpc](pkg/rpc) are released under the
    BSD 3-clause license, since they are derived from
    [Go's source code](https://github.com/golang/go). See
    [pkg/diff/LICENSE](pkg/diff/LICENSE) and [pkg/rpc/LICENSE](pkg/rpc/LICENSE).

-   Files in [pkg/persistent](pkg/persistent) and its subdirectories are
    released under EPL 1.0, since they are partially derived from
    [Clojure's source code](https://github.com/clojure/clojure). See
    [pkg/persistent/LICENSE](pkg/persistent/LICENSE).

-   Files in [pkg/md/spec](pkg/md/spec) are released under the Creative Commons
    CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, since they are derived from
    [the CommonMark spec](https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec). See
    [pkg/md/spec/LICENSE](pkg/md/spec/LICENSE).