NAME apsh — advanced piping shell DESCRIPTION apsh is a shell designed to give the user the ability to create advanced pipelines. To this end, all forks apsh makes of itself share exported and unexported variables, with the exception of when the ( ) syntax is used to fork the shell, in which case they are inherited but unshared. apsh has support for <( ) and >( ), as well as <>( ) which creates a socket instead of a pipe and connects both ends. Similarly <>| is like |, except it creates a bidirectional socket instead of a pipe. apsh also lets the user create pipes and sockets before they are used. Additionally if ( ) or (( )) is used as an argument in to a command, the code is formatted and parsed the as a string to the command as that argument.