🌺 The flower shell. A comfy and nice little shell for Lua users and fans!

Hilbish is a Unix-y shell which uses Lua for scripting. Things like the prompt, general configuration and such are done with Lua.

For interactive use, it uses a library to run sh which works on all platforms Hilbish can be compiled for. It can also act as a Lua REPL if you want it to be.

Screenshots

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 1.17+
• 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.
Images and assets are licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0