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@@ -1,2 +1,21 @@ 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 then + 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. |