4.2 KiB
Hilbish is a new, Unix-like shell which uses Lua as its configuration language. It's decently fast for interactive use and includes a bunch of utility functions and features to make your life in a terminal easier.
Screenshots
Links
- Documentation
- Gallery - See more screenshots of Hilbish in action
Installation
NOTE: Hilbish is currently only officially supported and tested on Linux
Prebuilt binaries
Binaries are provided for the latest commit.
Note that these use Hilbiline, not readline, and may be missing functionality (moving the cursor, proper unicode support and backspace working properly)
Click on the checkmark (or x) near the commit hash, then details for your platform
Then click on the artifacts drop down, and download artifact for your platform,
like what is highlighted in the screenshot.
AUR
Arch Linux users can install Hilbish from the AUR with the following command:
yay -S hilbish
Or from the latest master
commit with:
yay -S hilbish-git
Nixpkgs
Nix/NixOS users can install Hilbish from the central repository, nixpkgs, through the usual ways.
If you're new to nix you should probably read up on how to do that here.
Manual Build
Prerequisites
- Go 1.16+
- GNU Readline
On Fedora or other RPM based distros, readline can be installed with:
sudo dnf install readline-devel
On Debian/Ubuntu and distros based on them, it can be installed with:
sudo apt install libreadline-dev
On Arch Linux, it can be installed with:
sudo pacman -S readline
Build
First, clone Hilbish:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Rosettea/Hilbish
cd Hilbish
go get -d ./...
To build, run:
make dev
Or, if you want a stable branch, run these commands:
git checkout $(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)
make build
After you did all that, run sudo make install
to install Hilbish globally.
Contributing
Any kind of contributions to Hilbish are welcome! Read CONTRIBUTING.md before getting started.
Thanks to everyone below who's contributed!
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License
Hilbish is licensed under the MIT license! Read the license here for more info.
Images in the assets folder are under CC-BY-SA 4.0