icelandjack / tysh

Typed Shell with structured data representation.

TySh

Typed Shell with structured data representation.

Useful links

• http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/systems-programming-in-haskell.html
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours
• http://damnkids.posterous.com/rich-format-unix-pipes
• http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368993
• http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/yandros/doc/es-usenix-winter93.html
• https://github.com/pkamenarsky/ytools

Parsing

• http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/download/parsec/parsec.html
• http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html

Example

TySh> cd /tmp
Pipe [Command "cd" ["/tmp"] []]

TySh> pwd
Pipe [Command "pwd" [] []]
/tmp

TySh> date | tr a-z A-Z
Pipe [Command "date" [] [],Command "tr" ["a-z","A-Z"] []]
TUE DEC  4 23:40:30 CET 2012

TySh> get PATH | xargs -n1 | tr a-z A-Z
Pipe [Command "get" ["PATH"] [],Command "xargs" ["-n1"] [],Command "tr" ["a-z","A-Z
/CHALMERS/USERS/-----/.CABAL/BIN
/BIN
/USR/BIN
/USR/SBIN
...

TySh> set PS1 shell>
Pipe [Command "set" ["PS1","shell>"] []]

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