Murex: A Smarter Shell

A smarter, more intuitive, and readable shell. You'll get more done, and more easily, with Murex

A non-exhaustive list features would include:

• 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.

Smart Data

Murex has native support for data formats such as JSON, YAML, XML, CSV, and others.

Extremely Expressive

Murex has a flexible syntax that is both succinct enough to allow for fast typing in the command line, but also readable shell scripts.

Better Error Handling

Shell scripts are notorious for having leaky failure modes. Murex fixes this with familiar features like error handling and unit tests.

Getting Started

Visit our official website for easier browsing of the documentation.

Learn About The Command Line

Murex features a state-of-the-art interactive command line. Read more about it's unique features.

Learn The Syntax

Read the language tour to learn about the syntax and how shell scripting is easier in Murex.

Cheat Sheet

The Rosetta Stone is a great cheat sheet for those wishing to skip the tutorials and jump straight in. This guide provides comparisons with Bash.

Easy to Install

Install murex from your favorite package manager or directly from source:

ArchLinux

From AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/murex

wget -O PKGBUILD 'https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=murex'
makepkg --syncdeps --install 

FreeBSD Ports

Homebrew

MacPorts

More details are available in the INSTALL document.

Discuss Murex

Discussions presently happen in Github discussions.

Compatibility Commitment

Murex is committed to backwards compatibility. While we do want to continue to grow and improve the shell, this will not come at the expense of long term usability. Read more

Issue Tracking

Murex is considered stable, however if you do run into problems then please raise them on the project's issue tracker: https://github.com/lmorg/murex/issues

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