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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

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

Install

git clone https://github.com/Hilbis/Hilbish
cd Hilbish
make build
sudo make install
# Or 
sudo make all

Alternativly, 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.

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