Hackshell

Hackshell is a lightweight, customizable shell framework built in Rust. It provides an interactive command-line interface that can be easily extended with custom commands and integrated into your applications.

Features

• Task Management: Background task spawning, monitoring, and killing
• Environment Variables: Built-in environment variable storage and manipulation
• Rich Command Set: Comes with essential built-in commands like help, set, get, env, etc.
• Command History: Persistent command history between sessions

Built-in Commands

Hackshell comes with several built-in commands:

• env - List all environment variables
• get <name> - Get the value of an environment variable
• set <name> <value> - Set an environment variable
• unset <name> - Remove an environment variable
• help - Show available commands and their descriptions
• sleep <seconds> - Sleep for the specified duration
• exit - Exit the shell
• task - Manage background tasks

Usage

You can find complete examples in the examples directory. The following are quick examples.

Basic Example

use hackshell::{Hackshell, error::HackshellError};

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Create a new shell
    let shell = Hackshell::new("basic> ")?;
    shell.set_history_file("history.txt")?;

    // Enter the shell loop
    loop {
        match shell.run() {
            Ok(_) => {}
            Err(e) => {
                if matches!(e, HackshellError::Eof)
                    || matches!(e, HackshellError::Interrupted)
                    || matches!(e, HackshellError::Exit)
                {
                    break;
                }

                eprintln!("Error: {}", e);
            }
        }
    }

    Ok(())
}

Adding Custom Commands

You can extend Hackshell with your own commands. Commands can specify a category which is used by the help command to group related commands together. If not specified, commands default to the "User" category:

use hackshell::{Hackshell, Command, CommandResult};

struct MyCommand;

impl Command for MyCommand {
    fn commands(&self) -> &'static [&'static str] {
        &["mycmd"]
    }

    fn help(&self) -> &'static str {
        "mycmd - My custom command"
    }

    fn category(&self) -> &'static str {
        "Custom"  // Groups this command under [Custom] in help output
    }

    fn run(&self, _shell: &Hackshell, args: &[&str]) -> CommandResult {
        println!("My custom command was called with args: {:?}", &args[1..]);
        Ok(None)
    }
}

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let mut shell = Hackshell::new("hackshell> ")?;
    shell.set_history_file("something.txt")?;

    // Add your custom command
    shell.add_command(MyCommand {});

    // Run shell loop
    // ...

    Ok(())
}

Background Tasks

Hackshell allows you to spawn and manage background tasks:

use hackshell::Hackshell;
use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let shell = Hackshell::new("> ")?;

    shell.spawn("my-task", |run| {
        while run.load(Ordering::Relaxed) {
            // do work...
        }
        None
    });

    for task in shell.get_tasks() {
        println!("Task: {}, started: {}", task.name, task.started);
    }

    shell.terminate("my-task")?;
    Ok(())
}

It also support asynchronous tasks!

Forking Shells

Create a child shell that inherits the parent's environment:

use hackshell::Hackshell;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let shell = Hackshell::new("> ")?;
    shell.set_var("foo", "bar");

    let child = shell.fork("subshell> ")?;
    assert_eq!(shell.get_var("foo"), child.get_var("foo"));
    Ok(())
}

Installation

Add Hackshell to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
hackshell = "0.6.1"

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.