ZShaolin installs an interactive and scriptable console terminal on your Android device. It comes with a fully featured and well usable shell (colors, completion etc.) and several command line applications to edit and convert images, audio and video in different formats, also using batch processing.
Features
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No root required! ZShaolin saves you time and effort to be all set on Android with a PRO terminal that includes:
- Vim (fully featured) to edit texts with syntax highlight and more
- Emacs (v24 barebone) for those who prefer it as an editor
- Git versioning system to keep track of your files and their modifications
- Ssh, Scp and RSync to transfer files over the network
- Nmap to do network exploration and port scanning
- FFMpeg to convert, decode and encode audio and video files
- ImageMagick to convert and manipulate all image formats
- Sox and OggZ to manipulate and convert audio files (DRM free!)
- LUA and Perl scripting interpreters
- And more GNU tools Awk, Sed, Grep and the awesome Z-Shell
... ZShaolin makes an hacker's life easier when using Android, while offering a friendly learning environment for shell scripting.
Documentation
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ZShaolin comes complete with all manual pages of included programs (just use man!)
There is plenty of documentation freely available on the Internet in english and other languages on how to use a terminal console in UNIX like systems, here below we suggest some readings for those of us who read english
☞ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell Information about the Z-shell
☞ http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line Introduction to the command-line
☞ http://zshwiki.org ZSh user's wiki
☞ http://grml.org/zsh/grml-zsh-refcard.pdf ZSh configuration reference card
☞ http://www.imagemagick.org/script image manipulation
☞ http://sox.sourceforge.net/Docs/Documentation audio manipulation
☞ http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html video manipulation
Bugs
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SWIFT keyboard not supported.
If install fails make sure you have enough space in your device FLASH storage (not sdcard) you need 200MB free!
We are actively developing ZShaolin and we welcome your bug reports: please report your problems on the [http://bugs.dyne.org Bugs.dyne.org] web interface.
Please do not report your bugs in the market comments! many reported so far were due to hardware failure and not the fault of this app. You need to make sure your hardware is in a good state and test at least twice if you can reproduce the bug.
If you had the Android SDK then you can easily debug ZShaolin and gather details from a working ADB console (debugging mode ON) adb shell and drop privileges with a simple script:
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#!/bin/sh
uid=`ls -l /data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system | \
/data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system/bin/awk '{print $2; exit}'` \
/data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system/busybox/bin/setuidgid \
"$uid" /data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system/etc/zlogin
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I will react to your reports, but keep in mind I love details! ;^)
Thanks!
☯☯☯☯☯
This application is still in development: by buying it you will support its progress, on our website we also detail how money gets spent.
However you can build it yourself: its all made with free and open-source software.
In the past few days many more people supported this effort buying this app: THANKS!
Happy hacking! :^)
Tags: zshaolin zsh console terminal torrent, android vim terminal, zsh script print on console, zsh video, zshaolin android.
Features
☯☯☯☯
No root required! ZShaolin saves you time and effort to be all set on Android with a PRO terminal that includes:
- Vim (fully featured) to edit texts with syntax highlight and more
- Emacs (v24 barebone) for those who prefer it as an editor
- Git versioning system to keep track of your files and their modifications
- Ssh, Scp and RSync to transfer files over the network
- Nmap to do network exploration and port scanning
- FFMpeg to convert, decode and encode audio and video files
- ImageMagick to convert and manipulate all image formats
- Sox and OggZ to manipulate and convert audio files (DRM free!)
- LUA and Perl scripting interpreters
- And more GNU tools Awk, Sed, Grep and the awesome Z-Shell
... ZShaolin makes an hacker's life easier when using Android, while offering a friendly learning environment for shell scripting.
Documentation
☯☯☯☯☯☯☯
ZShaolin comes complete with all manual pages of included programs (just use man!)
There is plenty of documentation freely available on the Internet in english and other languages on how to use a terminal console in UNIX like systems, here below we suggest some readings for those of us who read english
☞ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell Information about the Z-shell
☞ http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line Introduction to the command-line
☞ http://zshwiki.org ZSh user's wiki
☞ http://grml.org/zsh/grml-zsh-refcard.pdf ZSh configuration reference card
☞ http://www.imagemagick.org/script image manipulation
☞ http://sox.sourceforge.net/Docs/Documentation audio manipulation
☞ http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html video manipulation
Bugs
☯☯☯
SWIFT keyboard not supported.
If install fails make sure you have enough space in your device FLASH storage (not sdcard) you need 200MB free!
We are actively developing ZShaolin and we welcome your bug reports: please report your problems on the [http://bugs.dyne.org Bugs.dyne.org] web interface.
Please do not report your bugs in the market comments! many reported so far were due to hardware failure and not the fault of this app. You need to make sure your hardware is in a good state and test at least twice if you can reproduce the bug.
If you had the Android SDK then you can easily debug ZShaolin and gather details from a working ADB console (debugging mode ON) adb shell and drop privileges with a simple script:
✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁✂-✁-✂-✁✂-✁-✂-✁
#!/bin/sh
uid=`ls -l /data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system | \
/data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system/bin/awk '{print $2; exit}'` \
/data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system/busybox/bin/setuidgid \
"$uid" /data/data/org.dyne.zshaolin/files/system/etc/zlogin
✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁-✂-✁✂-✁-✂-✁✂-✁-✂-✁
I will react to your reports, but keep in mind I love details! ;^)
Thanks!
☯☯☯☯☯
This application is still in development: by buying it you will support its progress, on our website we also detail how money gets spent.
However you can build it yourself: its all made with free and open-source software.
In the past few days many more people supported this effort buying this app: THANKS!
Happy hacking! :^)
Tags: zshaolin zsh console terminal torrent, android vim terminal, zsh script print on console, zsh video, zshaolin android.
Recently changed in this version:
Improved usability and new tools:
- Vim now works again
- Emacs is added for those who prefer it
- Nmap is included and working for non-root operations





Comments and ratings for ZShaolin ZSH console terminal
(58 stars)
by Matthew Moore on 07/04/2013
This is just what I was looking for. I love having a terminal that works with what I consider to be the basic tools.
(58 stars)
by Tomer Bar-Shlomo on 20/12/2012
All you need for image audio and video yet so much more...
(58 stars)
by A Google User on 05/12/2012
crashes when start zshaolin is pressed same with latest update
(58 stars)
by Ed Ropple on 28/11/2012
I'm a zsh user and a vim guy, so finding ZShaolin was fantastic. ZShaolin 0.6.0 worked completely out of the box, which was groovy, but there were a few configuration bits that made using vim in the way I'm accustomed to using it pretty hard. But my conve
(58 stars)
by Charles on 21/11/2012
No response from devs
(58 stars)
by Ricky on 21/11/2012
The install fails with an improperly signed package error. Bought to support development. Works fine when compiled from source.
(58 stars)
by Norbert on 21/11/2012
really like the idea but plagued with install problems. I now get an install error saying "Package file was not signed correctly"