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# Oil Shell

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Oil Shell (OSH) is a Bash-compatible UNIX command-line shell. OSH can be run on most UNIX-like operating systems, including GNU/Linux. It is written in Python (v2.7), but ships with a native executable. The dialect of Bash recognized by OSH is called the OSH language.

## Installation

Install the oil package.

### Smoke Test

Make sure that OSH has been installed correctly by running the following in a terminal:

    $ osh

This will start an OSH session and display a shell prompt:

    osh$

Identify an installed binary and attempt to invoke it in the OSH session to confirm that the output is correct.

For example:

    osh$ ls
    ...

### Making OSH your default shell

See Command-line shell#Changing your default shell.

## Removal

See Command-line shell#Uninstalling shell.

## Troubleshooting

Reproducible bugs/errors may be reported on Github. When filing a report, please include the output of OSH when it is running in verbose mode. To enable verbose mode, execute the following:

    $> export OVM_VERBOSE=1

## See also

- Oil Github
- Oil Project Home
- Oil Twitter Feed
- Oil Subreddit

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