squish your workflow into shape.

Note: This is still a very early and rough version. Things may break, features may be missing, and the API may change. squish should not be used as a daily driver yet!

• Automatically detects and displays your Linux distribution logo
• Shows git branch and status in the prompt
• Powerline-style design with customizable colors
• Visual indicators for command success/failure

• Automatic command timing for slow commands
• Directory frequency tracking
• Persistent command history
• Tab completion for commands and file paths

• cd - Change directory
• ll - Enhanced directory listing
• freqs - View directory usage statistics
• alias / unalias - Manage command aliases
• jobs / fg / bg - Background job management
• export / unset - Environment variable management
• time - Measure command execution time
• help - Built-in help system

• Command aliasing
• Background job control
• Pipes and redirection support
• Configurable via ~/.config/squish/config
• Autostart commands on shell launch

• Rust 1.70 or later
• Terminal with Nerd Fonts support (for distro icons)

cargo build --release

The binary will be located at target/release/squish.

# Add squish to /etc/shells
echo "/path/to/squish" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells

# Change your default shell
chsh -s /path/to/squish

The configuration file is located at ~/.config/squish/config.

# Command timing
show_timing=true
timing_threshold_ms=50
fancy_mode=true

# Prompt colors
prompt.distro_text=black
prompt.distro_bg=bright_yellow
prompt.user_host_text=black
prompt.user_host_bg=white
prompt.dir_text=white
prompt.dir_bg=blue
prompt.git_text=white
prompt.git_bg=green
prompt.arrow_success=green
prompt.arrow_error=red

# Autostart commands
autostart=neofetch
autostart=echo "Welcome to squish"

Basic colors: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white

Bright colors: bright_black, bright_red, bright_green, bright_yellow, bright_blue, bright_magenta, bright_cyan, bright_white

RGB colors: 255,220,100 or 255 220 100

# Change directory
cd ~/projects

# List directory with details
ll /usr/bin

# View directory frequency statistics
freqs

# Create an alias
alias ll='ls -lah'

# Run command in background
sleep 10 &

# List background jobs
jobs

# Bring job to foreground
fg 1

# Pipes and redirection
cat file.txt | grep "pattern" > output.txt

# Command chaining
cd /tmp && ls -la || echo "Failed"

# Time command execution
time find / -name "*.rs"

• rustyline - Line editing and history
• colored - Terminal colors
• chrono - Time and date handling
• humansize - Human-readable file sizes
• which - Find executables in PATH
• glob - Pattern matching
• libc - System calls

MIT License