Nacre

Nacre is an intuitive shell designed for those who prefer to work with objects over text. Want to give it a try?

Builtins at your fingertips

Navigate smoothly with preview, completion and your favorits builtins: ls, cd, chmod, chown, stat, grep, and more.

Automatic module loading

The auto-require mechanism imports your modules when you need it. Explicit import can also be done with require().

Installation

Nacre relies on NodeJS version 18, so you must have it installed on your system. Follow their installation instructions. Once this is done, install it using:

npm install -g nacre

More details about the installation.

Example

An example is better than a long speech:

> ls()
[ 'foo' ]

> touch('bar')
'bar'

> ls()
[ 'bar', 'foo' ]
  
// inspect foo's permissions
> chmod('foo')
{
  user: { read: true, write: true, execute: false },
  group: { read: true, write: false, execute: false },
  others: { read: true, write: false, execute: false }
}

> chmod.add.execute.user('foo')
{
  user: { read: true, write: true, execute: true },
  group: { read: true, write: false, execute: false },
  others: { read: true, write: false, execute: false }
}

> const perm = chmod('foo')

// inspect the value of perm variable
> perm
{
  user: { read: true, write: true, execute: true },
  group: { read: true, write: false, execute: false },
  others: { read: true, write: false, execute: false }
}

// give bar the same permissions as foo 
> chmod.set('bar', perm)
{
  user: { read: true, write: true, execute: true },
  group: { read: true, write: false, execute: false },
  others: { read: true, write: true, execute: false }
}

Available commands

See the documentation.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.