Crate rust_bash 

A sandboxed bash interpreter with a virtual filesystem.

rust-bash executes bash scripts safely in-process — no containers, no VMs, no host access. All file operations happen on a pluggable virtual filesystem (in-memory by default), and configurable execution limits prevent runaway scripts.

Quick start

use rust_bash::RustBashBuilder;
use std::collections::HashMap;

let mut shell = RustBashBuilder::new()
    .files(HashMap::from([
        ("/hello.txt".into(), b"hello world".to_vec()),
    ]))
    .build()
    .unwrap();

let result = shell.exec("cat /hello.txt").unwrap();
assert_eq!(result.stdout, "hello world");
assert_eq!(result.exit_code, 0);

Features

• 80+ built-in commands — echo, cat, grep, awk, sed, jq, find, sort, diff, curl, and more
• Full bash syntax — pipelines, redirections, variables, control flow, functions, command substitution, globs, brace expansion, arithmetic, here-documents, case statements
• Execution limits — 10 configurable bounds (time, commands, loops, output size, etc.)
• Network policy — sandboxed curl with URL allow-lists and method restrictions
• Multiple filesystem backends — InMemoryFs, OverlayFs, ReadWriteFs, MountableFs
• Custom commands — implement the VirtualCommand trait to add your own
• C FFI and WASM — embed in any language via shared library or WebAssembly

Re-exports

pub use api::RustBash;

pub use api::RustBashBuilder;

pub use commands::CommandContext;

pub use commands::CommandResult;

pub use commands::ExecCallback;

pub use commands::VirtualCommand;

pub use error::RustBashError;

pub use error::VfsError;

pub use interpreter::ExecResult;

pub use interpreter::ExecutionCounters;

pub use interpreter::ExecutionLimits;

pub use interpreter::InterpreterState;

pub use interpreter::ShellOpts;

pub use interpreter::Variable;

pub use interpreter::VariableAttrs;

pub use interpreter::VariableValue;

pub use interpreter::builtin_names;

pub use network::NetworkPolicy;

pub use vfs::DirEntry;

pub use vfs::InMemoryFs;

pub use vfs::Metadata;

pub use vfs::MountableFs;

pub use vfs::NodeType;

pub use vfs::VirtualFs;

pub use vfs::OverlayFs;

pub use vfs::ReadWriteFs;

Modules

api

Public API: RustBash shell instance and builder.

commands

Command trait and built-in command implementations.

error

interpreter

Interpreter engine: parsing, AST walking, and execution state.

mcp

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server over stdio.

network

platform

Platform abstraction for types that differ between native and WASM.

vfs