elvish/website/home.md

**Elvish** is an expressive programming language and a versatile interactive
shell, combined into one seamless package. It runs on Linux, BSDs, macOS and
Windows.

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      <h2>Powerful Pipelines</h2>
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        Text pipelines are intuitive and powerful. However, if your data have
        inherently complex structures, processing them with the pipeline
        often requires a lot of ad-hoc, hard-to-maintain text processing code.
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        Pipelines in Elvish can carry structured data, not just text. You can
        stream lists, maps and even functions through the pipeline.
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      <h2>Intuitive Control Structures</h2>
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        If you know programming, you probably already know how
        <code>if</code> looks in C. So why learn another syntax?
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        Elvish comes with a standard set of control structures: conditional
        control with <code>if</code>, loops with <code>for</code> and
        <code>while</code>, and exception handling with <code>try</code>. All
        of them have a familiar C-like syntax.
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        Do you type far too many <code>cd</code> commands? Do you struggle to
        remember which <code>deeply/nested/directory</code> your source codes,
        logs and configuration files are?
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        Backed by a real database, Elvish remembers all the directories you
        have been to, all the time. Just press <kbd>Ctrl-L</kbd>
        and search, as you do in a browser.
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        Want to find the magical <code>ffmpeg</code> command that you used to
        transcode a video file two months ago, but it is buried under a
        million other commands?
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        No more cycling through history one command at a time.
        Press <kbd>Ctrl-R</kbd> and start searching your entire
        command history.
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        Want the convenience of a file manager, but can't give up the power of
        a shell?
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        You no longer have to make a choice. Press
        <kbd>Ctrl-N</kbd> to start exploring directories and
        preview files, with the full power of a shell still under your
        fingertip.
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# <i class="icon-rocket"></i> Run Elvish

-   [Download](get/) a binary

-   [Source code](https://github.com/elves/elvish) on GitHub

-   [Try Elvish](https://try.elv.sh) directly from the browser (Beta)

# <i class="icon-sitemap"></i> Use this Site

Start your Elvish journey in this very website!

-   [Learn](learn/) the fundamentals and interesting topics

-   Peruse the definitive [reference](ref/) documents

-   Read the [blog](blog/) for news, tips, and developers' musings

-   Subscribe to the [feed](feed.atom) to keep updated

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# <i class="icon-chat"></i> Join the Community

Join any of the following channels -- they are all all bridged together thanks
to [Matrix](https://matrix.org)!

-   Telegram: [Elvish user group](https://t.me/+Pv5ZYgTXD-YaKwcP)

-   IRC: [#elvish](https://web.libera.chat/#elvish) on Libera Chat

-   Gitter: [elves/elvish](https://gitter.im/elves/elvish)

-   Matrix: [#users:elv.sh](https://matrix.to/#/#users:elv.sh)

# <i class="icon-link-ext"></i> More Resources

-   [Awesome Elvish](https://github.com/elves/awesome-elvish): Official list of
    unofficial Elvish modules

-   [@ElvishShell](https://twitter.com/elvishshell) on Twitter

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