NAME

       xonsh - Pythonish, BASHwards looking shell

DESCRIPTION

       Xonsh  is  a  Python-ish  shell language and command prompt. Unlike other shells, xonsh is
       based on Python, with additional syntax added  that  makes  calling  subprocess  commands,
       manipulating  the  environment,  and dealing with the file system easy. Xonsh supports all
       normal Python constructs and a subset of those available in bash.

       usage: xonsh [-h] [-V] [-c COMMAND] [-i] [-l] [--rc RC [RC ...]] [--no-rc]

              [--no-script-cache]  [--cache-everything]  [-D  ITEM]   [--shell-type   SHELL_TYPE]
              [--timings] [script-file] ...

       xonsh

   positional arguments:
       script-file
              If present, execute the script in script-file and exit.

       args   Additional arguments to the script specified by script-file.

   options:
       -h, --help
              Show help and exit.

       -V, --version
              Show version information and exit.

       -c COMMAND
              Run a single command and exit.

       -i, --interactive
              Force running in interactive mode.

       -l, --login
              Run as a login shell.

       --rc RC [RC ...]
              The  xonshrc  files  to  load,  these  may  be  either  xonsh  files or directories
              containing xonsh files

       --no-rc
              Do not load any xonsh RC files.

       --no-script-cache
              Do not cache scripts as they are run.

       --cache-everything
              Use a cache, even for interactive commands.

       -D ITEM
              Define an environment variable, in the form of -DNAME=VAL. May be used many times.

       --shell-type SHELL_TYPE
              What kind of shell should be  used.  Possible  options:  b,  best,  d,  dumb,  ptk,
              prompt-toolkit,  prompt_toolkit,  rand,  random, rl, readline. Warning! If set this
              overrides $SHELL_TYPE variable.

       --timings
              Prints timing information before  the  prompt  is  shown.   This  is  useful  while
              tracking down performance issues and investigating startup times.

FILES

       The run control file is written in xonsh script and executed once at start-up.

       /etc/xonshrc
              System-wide run control file

       ~/.xonshrc
              Per-user run control file

       In  addition  to  the  run  control  file, a JSON formatted static file can be used to set
       runtime parameters and environment variables before the xonshrc files are executed.

       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xonsh/config.json
              Per-user static config file