Brick Shell is a small shell adapted from Bubble Shell written in Rust

Note: This shell has only been tested un Ubuntu, if you are running another OS you might have to make adjustments

Features

Brick Shell currently supports the following features:

• Chaining commands through pipes

• A custom ls implementation

• Command history, which can be cleared using clear-history

• Autocompletion using TAB for files, directories and commonly used commands

  Note: Commands get added to a list and are available for autocompletion upon restart of the shell

• Hinting what the shell will autocomplete to

• aliases using alias [-p / -t] [name] "alias" Where -p indicates permanent aliases and -t only aliases for this session.

• Chaining commands by adding && betweem them

You can restart the shell and by that also reload aliases etc by using restart

Compiling && Running

If you don't have Rust installed, you can get it here

Once you have Rust installed just run cargo build to build the executable.

To use this shell, you need to do the following things:

1. run bash move_shell.bash to copy the executable to /bin/

2. run chsh and enter /bin/brick_shell as your new shell path

3. go into /etc/passwd and change the line that looks like {user}:x:1000:1000:{user}:/home/{user}:/bin/{your active shell} to {user}:x:1000:1000:{user}:/home/{user}:/bin/brick_shell

({user} denotes the currently active username)

On Ubuntu if you want the shell to startup when you click your terminal do the following: Right-click on the terminal icon -> Preferences -> Select a profile (your start profile should just be Unnamed) -> Command

Here check Run command as login shell and Run custom command instead of my shell

as the command you enter /bin/brick_shell