Tosh

Toft Shell: My own shell for fun and learning

Description

A basic shell for Linux, written in Rust.
Written because it's fun, and because I want to better my understanding of both Rust and the shell.
Inspired by Build Your Own Shell using Rust by Josh Mcguigan.
Then I started adding more features myself.

Features

From the guide mentioned above

• Run commands
• cd
• exit
• Basic error handling
• Pipes

Features I've added myself

• Display username
• Display hostname
• Display current directory
• Change displayed location to ~ when under home directory
• cd without arguments changes directory to home directory
• Use colors to display prompt
• Save commands to history file

Features I would like to implement

• Read and use recently used commands from history
• Support for files and folders with spaces in name
• Tab completion
• Suggestions (based on history and maybe even Markov chaining) like in fish-shell

Requirements

• Rust

How to run

$ cargo run --release

How to exit

$ exit