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Oil 0.12.8

This is the home page for version 0.12.8 of Oil, a Unix shell. To use it,

1. Download a source tarball.
2. Build it and do a "smoke test", as described in INSTALL.

These steps take 30 to 60 seconds on most machines. After installation, see Getting Started.

The associated quality page shows test results, metrics, and benchmarks.

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Note: oil-native is a preview release, not a working shell.

What's New

• Details are in the raw git change log. Not all changes affect the release tarball.
• I sometimes write a release announcement with a high-level description of changes.

Documentation

The Doc Overview links to all docs. Here is the subset of them that are ready to read:

• Getting Started
• FAQ on Documentation. Look here if you can't find something.
• OSH:
  • Known Differences Between OSH and Other Shells | Quirks | Tracing Execution | Headless Mode
• The Oil language:
  • A Tour of the Oil Language | Oil vs. Shell Idioms and Shell Idioms | What Breaks When You Upgrade to Oil | Oil Language FAQ | Egg Expressions (Oil Regexes) | Oil Fixes Shell's Error Handling | Simple Word Evaluation | Variable Declaration, Mutation, and Scope | Hay - Custom Languages for Unix Systems | Warts
• Language Design:
  • A Feel For Oil's Syntax | Syntactic Concepts | Command vs. Expression Mode | Language Influences
• Interchange Formats:
  • QSN

More docs:

• OSH Help Topics (in progress) | Oil Help Topics (in progress).
• Github Wiki for oilshell/oil. The Oil Deployments wiki page has other ways of getting Oil. These versions may not be up-to-date.