--- title: Elvish Shell | daily.dev description: Elvish Shell is a powerful scripting language and shell with useful interactive features. It allows for readable and maintainable scripts, data structures,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/elvish-shell-8g4qqtklu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Elvish Shell | daily.dev og:description: Elvish Shell is a powerful scripting language and shell with useful interactive features. It allows for readable and maintainable scripts, data structures,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/elvish-shell-8g4qqtklu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8G4qQTKlU.png og:image:alt: Elvish Shell og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Elvish Shell **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 9 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Elvish Shell is a powerful scripting language and shell with useful interactive features. It allows for readable and maintainable scripts, data structures, functional programming, and catching errors before execution. Elvish Shell can be run anywhere and is commonly used in CI/CD pipelines. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#mac](https://daily.dev/tags/mac), [#shell](https://daily.dev/tags/shell) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/elvish-shell-8g4qqtklu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Elvish Shell","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/elvish-shell-8g4qqtklu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/elvish-shell-8g4qqtklu"},"datePublished":"2024-05-10T07:15:45.567Z","dateModified":"2024-05-10T07:15:44.364Z","description":"Elvish Shell is a powerful scripting language and shell with useful interactive features. It allows for readable and maintainable scripts, data structures,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/elvish-shell-8g4qqtklu","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":9},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"linux,mac,shell","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Elvish Shell"}]} ```