Hilbish

🎀 a nice lil shell for lua people made with go and lua

Hilbish is an interactive Unix-like shell written in Go, with the config and other code written in Lua.
It is sort of in a stable state currently, usable as a daily shell, but there may still be breaking changes in Lua modules.

Screenshots

Links

• Documentation
• Gallery - See more screenshots of Hilbish in action

Building

Prebuilt binaries are not yet provided, so to try it out you'll have to manually compile.

NOTE: Hilbish is currently only officially supported and tested on Linux

Prerequisites

• Go 1.16

• GNU Readline

On Fedora, 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 OpenSUSE, it can be installed with:

sudo zypper install readline-devel

Install

First, clone Hilbish:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Hilbis/Hilbish
cd Hilbish

Then build and install:

make dev
sudo make install
# Or 
sudo make all

Or, if you want the latest stable release:

git checkout $(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)
make build
sudo make install

Alternatively, if you use Arch Linux, you can compile Hilbish with an (unofficial) AUR package:

yay -S hilbish

If you want the latest and greatest, you can install and compile from latest git commit:

yay -S hilbish-git

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

Contributing

Any kind of contributions to Hilbish are welcome!
Make sure to read CONTRIBUTING.md before getting started.

Special Thanks To

Everyone here who has contributed:

Made with contributors-img.

Credits

• This blog post which is how Hilbish now inserts a newline even if output doesn't have one.

License

Hilbish is licensed under the MIT license.
Read here for more info.