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liljencrantz/crush

Crush is a command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language.
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/liljencrantz/crush
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Crush

Section titled “Crush”

Crush is an attempt to make a traditional command line shell that is also a modern programming language. It has the features one would expect from a modern programming language like a type system, closures and lexical scoping, but with a syntax geared toward both batch and interactive shell usage.

  • [The overview]!(docs/overview.md) gives a detailed overview of the features of Crush.
  • [The syntax documentation]!(docs/syntax.md) contains more a detailed description of the Crush syntax than what fits into the overview document.
  • [The configuration documentation]!(docs/config.md) describes how to configure Crush.
  • [The hacking documentation]!(docs/hacking.md) will eventually give you enough information about the inner workings of Crush to start hacking yourself.

Building and installing Crush

Section titled “Building and installing Crush”

OS X dependencies

Section titled “OS X dependencies”
  • Install Brew.
  • Install openssl brew install openssl
  • Install protobuf brew install protobuf
  • Install git xcode-select --install

Ubuntu dependencies

Section titled “Ubuntu dependencies”
  • Update apt index apt update
  • Install dependencies apt install build-essential git curl pkg-config libssl-dev libdbus-1-dev libsystemd-dev

Install Rust

Section titled “Install Rust”

Install Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Add it to your path

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin

Compile and install crush

Section titled “Compile and install crush”

clone this repository,

git clone https://github.com/liljencrantz/crush.git

and run

cd crush && cargo build --release && cargo install --path .

and you should have a working binary to try out in ~/.cargo/bin. That directory should already be in your path, so just write crush to run the shell.

Have fun!