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Welcome to SQSH

What is SQSH?

Sqsh (pronounced skwish) is short for SQshelL (pronounced s-q-shell), it is intended as a replacement for the venerable 'isql' program supplied by Sybase. It came about due to years of frustration of trying to do real work with a program that was never meant to perform real work.

Sqsh is much more than a nice prompt (a la 'dsql', from David B. Joyner), it is intended to provide much of the functionality provided by a good shell, such as variables, aliasing, redirection, pipes, back-grounding, job control, history, command substitution, and dynamic configuration. Also, as a by-product of the design, it is remarkably easy to extend and add functionality.

Sqsh was developped by Scott C. Gray, and is currently maintained by Michael Peppler (mpeppler@peppler.org)

Availability

Sqsh may be found on the following sites:

http://www.sqsh.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqsh/

Licensing

99% of the software that I use is free, therefore I like to give back in kind. Sqsh is held under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and therefore may be freely distributed under the terms of this license.

Building and Installing

Refer to the INSTALL file for directions on installation.