Mysh
Inspired by the excellent article "Writing a Shell in 25 Lines of Ruby Code" I thought it would be fun to experiment with that concept and see if it could be taken further.
Many years ago, a popular shell program was modeled after the 'C' programming language. It went by the csh for C-shell (by the C shore :-) Instead of 'C', my shell would be based on Ruby (were you shocked?)! The obvious name rsh for Ruby-shell was already in use by the Remote-shell. So, given the limited scope of this effort, and not wanting to do a lot of typing all the time, I chose the name mysh for My-shell.
Since that name was available, it would seem that no one had yet written a shell program at this level of narcissism.
The mysh is available as both a stand-alone CLI program and for use as a command shell within Ruby applications and Rails web sites.
See the original article at: (http://www.blackbytes.info/2016/07/writing-a-shell-in-ruby/)
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'mysh'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install mysh
Usage
The mysh gem includes a simple executable called mysh. When run, the user is presented with a command prompt:
mysh>
This prompt can be used to execute three sorts of commands:
- Internal commands that are processed directly by mysh
- Ruby expressions, which are preceded by the equal (=) sign.
- External commands that are passed on to the standard command shell.
From the mysh help:
mysh> ?
mysh (MY SHell) version: 0.1.0
Internal mysh commands:
- executed by mysh directly.
- a leading space skips all internal commands.
! Display the mysh command history.
=an_expr Display the result of evaluating an expression in ruby.
=result Display the result of the previous evaluation.
=stuff \ This expression is continued on the next line.
? Display help information for mysh.
cd <dir> Change directory to <dir> and display the new working directory.
exit Exit mysh.
help Display help information for mysh.
history Display the mysh command history.
pwd Display the current working directory.
quit Exit mysh.
Math support:
- the execution environment includes the Math module.
- for more info use the help math command.
External commands:
- executed by the system using the standard shell.
- use help - for more info on external commands.
and
mysh> ? math
mysh (MY SHell) version: 0.1.0
mysh Math support summary
Method Returns Description
======= ======= ================================================
acos(x) Float Computes the arc cosine of x. Returns 0..PI.
acosh(x) Float Computes the inverse hyperbolic cosine of x.
asin(x) Float Computes the arc sine of x. Returns -PI/2..PI/2.
asinh(x) Float Computes the inverse hyperbolic sine of x.
atan(x) Float Computes the arc tangent of x. Returns -PI/2..PI/2.
atan2(y,x) Float Computes the arc tangent given y and x.
Returns a Float in the range -PI..PI.
atanh(x) Float Computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent of x.
cbrt(x) Float Returns the cube root of x.
cos(x) Float Computes the cosine of x (expressed in radians).
Returns a Float in the range -1.0..1.0.
cosh(x) Float Computes the hyperbolic cosine of x (expressed in radians).
erf(x) Float Calculates the error function of x.
erfc(x) Float Calculates the complementary error function of x.
exp(x) Float Returns e**x.
frexp(x) Array Returns a two-element array containing the normalized
fraction (a Float) and exponent (a Fixnum) of x.
gamma(x) Float Calculates the gamma function of x.
hypot(x,y) Float Returns sqrt(x**2 + y**2), the hypotenuse of a right-angled
triangle with sides x and y.
ldexp(f,e) Float Returns the value of f*(2**e).
lgamma(x) Array Returns a two-element array containing the log of the
gamma of x and the sign of gamma of x.
log(x) Float Computes the natural log of c.
log(x,B) Float Computes the base B log of c.
log10(x) Float Returns the base 10 logarithm of x.
log2(x) Float Returns the base 2 logarithm of x.
sin(x) Float Computes the sine of x (expressed in radians).
Returns a Float in the range -1.0..1.0.
sinh(x) Float Computes the hyperbolic sine of x (expressed in radians).
sqrt(x) Float Returns the non-negative square root of x.
tan(x) Float Computes the tangent of x (expressed in radians).
tanh(x) Float Computes the hyperbolic tangent of x (expressed in radians).
The mysh can also be used from within a Ruby application:
Mysh.run
Contributing
Plan A
- Fork it ( https://github.com/PeterCamilleri/mysh/fork )
- Switch to the development branch ('git branch development')
- Create your feature branch ('git checkout -b my-new-feature')
- Commit your changes ('git commit -am "Add some feature"')
- Push to the branch ('git push origin my-new-feature')
- Create new Pull Request
Plan B
Go to the GitHub repository at (https://github.com/PeterCamilleri/mysh) and raise an issue calling attention to some aspect that could use some TLC or a suggestion or an idea.