lmorg/murex

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1910 stars · 40 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Murex is a smarter shell and scripting language written in Go, with typed pipelines supporting JSON, YAML, XML, and CSV natively. It adds usability features like spell checking, context-sensitive hints, auto-completions, and built-in error handling and testing frameworks for shell scripts.

Use cases

• replace bash with a smarter shell
• write shell scripts with proper error handling
• pipe and query JSON and YAML from the command line
• get auto-completions and spell checking in my terminal
• script DevOps workflows with typed data
• learn a more readable shell scripting language

When to choose

• you want typed structured data handling in shell pipelines
• you need try/catch and unit testing in shell scripts
• you want a modern interactive shell with better ergonomics

When to avoid

• your scripts must run on systems with only POSIX bash
• your team relies heavily on bash/zsh-specific tooling and plugins
• you need a minimal shell for embedded or low-resource environments

Facets

application · maturity active

cli interpreter programming-language developer-tools testing developer-tools windows bsd cli cross-platform shell scripting-language repl yaml csv xml devops terminal command-line automation linux macos

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