Leoxia.Shell

Cross platform command interpreter. Written in C#/.NET Core. Primarily intended to work on Windows. Not tested on Linux/Mac but should work as well.

Navigation on command Line

• Use Ctrl+A, Home, Ctrl+E, End, Left Arrow, Right Arrow to navigate
• Ctrl+K, Backspace to delete characters.

History

• Can access history of commands with up arrow, down arrow, Ctrl+P, Ctrl+N.
• Can modify current command or history without losing current command.

Run executables in $PATH / %PATH%

• Search in path for the exe (add .exe on Windows).

Capture Standard Output / Standard error

• Standard output/error is captured from child process and displayed in console.

Environment Variables Expansion

Expand ${VARIABLE} $VARIABLE %VARIABLE%

Builtins

The following builtins are already implemented

• echo
• cd
• mkdir
• ls (options -l, -a, --color)
• exit

Alias management

• aliases are saved and loaded in <directory_of_assembly>/.lxaliases
• aliases are expanded on the commandline

TODO

• History save between runs
• History search
• Completion
• Standard Input redirection
• Redirection operators < | >
• Prompt customization

Development

In order to compile the projects, you'll need the following

• Visual Studio 2017 Preview 2
• .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1

Contribution

Any contribution is welcome. Please Read Contributing