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a-Shell

Local Unix terminal (& ssh)

Nicolas Holzschuch · Developer Tools · Free · US storefront

#23 Top Free Developer Tools Apps
rating
4.6 ★
ratings
563
updated
Oct 24, 2026

v2.3.0

released
Oct 25, 2019

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ashelllocalunixterminalssh

title 7/30 chars · subtitle 27/30 chars

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a-Shell is a complete local terminal emulator, allowing to run most Unix commands on your iOS device. You can transfer files using scp and curl, edit them with vim and ed, process them using grep, awk and sed. You can work with git repositories using lg2. Most commands are compiled for iOS native Arm64 format, making them fast and well integrated with the BSD Unix that powers iOS/iPadOS. a-Shell includes Python, Lua, Perl, JavaScript, C, C++ for programming and TeX (texlive…

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