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

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.

yay -S hilbish

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

yay -S hilbish-git

Manual Build

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

On Arch Linux, it can be installed with:

sudo pacman -S readline

Build

First, clone Hilbish:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Hilbis/Hilbish
cd Hilbish
# If you want the latest stable release, run this following command
git checkout $(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)

And get dependencies and build:

go get -d all
make dev

If you git checkout'd the latest stable release, run make build instead of make dev.
or want to experiment Hilbiline, instead run make hilbiline

Install

sudo make install

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.