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How to install Z-Shell, awk, lua, nano, and more on your Android device without rooting it

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http://www.linuxbsdos.com – Want to do more than just touch, swipe, pinch and zoom on your Android smartphone or tablet? Want a powerful shell environment plus FFMpeg, ImageMagick, Sox, OggZ, GNU Awk, Sed, Grep, the LUA scripting language and a whole lot more on that Android phone or tablet without rooting it? If your answer for both is “yes,” then you want to install ZShaolin, a console terminal from the coders at dyne.org. You will get zsh, the Z SHell, a powerful command line interpreter for UNIX-like operating systems, the aforementioned applications and more. ZShaolin’s binary is not free (cost is (General)

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