NAME

osh — command language interpreter

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The osh utility is a bash(1)-compatible command language interpreter: it reads commands either from standard input, a script file or command-line arguments and executes them.

osh accepts POSIX sh(1) arguments, with the following differences:

-n

Only validate the syntax. Also prints the AST.

--ast-format

What format the AST should be in.

ENVIRONMENT

OILS_HIJACK_SHEBANG

 

OILS_CRASH_DUMP_DIR

 

FILES

The interactive shell only sources ~/.config/oils/oshrc on startup.

EXIT STATUS

The osh utility exits with one of the following values:

1

One or more runtime errors occurred.

2

One or more parsing errors occurred, either due to incorrect script syntax or improper invocation of a shell builtin.

126

Permission was denied when running a command.

127

The referenced command or script could not be found.

SEE ALSO

bash(1), busybox(1), sh(1)

Docs

AUTHORS

The osh utility was written by Andy Chu <andy@oilshell.org>