elves/elvish

Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell

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stars

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Go

primary language

Mar 31, 2026

updated

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shell
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README

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

User docs

User docs are hosted on Elvish's website, elv.sh. This includes how to install Elvish, tutorials, reference pages, and news.

Development docs

Development docs are in ./docs.

Awesome Elvish

Awesome Elvish packages and tools that support Elvish.

License

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

Contributors

(top 30 of 93)

xiaq

6,262 commits

krader1961

181 commits

zzamboni

33 commits

xofyarg

25 commits

elves/elvish

Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell

6,378

stars

6,750

commits

Go

primary language

Mar 31, 2026

updated

elv.sh/
go
programming-language
shell
unix

README

Elvish

CI status FreeBSD & gccgo test status Test Coverage Go Reference Packaging status

Forum Twitter

Telegram Group Discord server #users:elv.sh #elvish on libera.chat Gitter

(Chat rooms are all bridged together thanks to Matrix.)

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

User docs

User docs are hosted on Elvish's website, elv.sh. This includes how to install Elvish, tutorials, reference pages, and news.

Development docs

Development docs are in ./docs.

Awesome Elvish

Awesome Elvish packages and tools that support Elvish.

License

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

Contributors

(top 30 of 93)

xiaq

6,262 commits

krader1961

181 commits

zzamboni

33 commits

xofyarg

25 commits

Languages

Go

85.8%

Elvish

9.5%

HTML

1.3%

CSS

1.2%