How to use Linux shell on iOS device (iPhone/iPad)

Yanwei Liu

1 min readNov 21, 2020

Install iSH Shell

‎iSH Shell

This is a great app, and it has great potential. I've done some research on the web, and apparently there was supposed…

apps.apple.com

Tutorial

ish-app/ish

I want to put some technical documentation and stuff here, but I haven't actually gotten around to it yet. That might…

github.com

Install apk (Alpine Linux package management)

wget -qO- http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/main/x86/apk-tools-static-2.10.5-r1.apk | tar -xz sbin/apk.static && ./sbin/apk.static add apk-tools && rm sbin/apk.static && rmdir sbin 2> /dev/null

once you install apk, you can use the following command to install nano text editor.

apk add nano

Install python

apk updateapk add python3python3print('hello world')

How to use Linux shell on iOS device (iPhone/iPad)

‎iSH Shell

This is a great app, and it has great potential. I've done some research on the web, and apparently there was supposed…

ish-app/ish

I want to put some technical documentation and stuff here, but I haven't actually gotten around to it yet. That might…

Written by Yanwei Liu