About

A (less than) bare minimum shell written in pure rust.
The name comes from the Japanese word 貝 (kai) which means shell or shellfish (hehe).

Installation

Clone repository and run the following command
Make sure you have cargo and rustc installed.

cargo build --release

Features

Basic commands

Any executables present in $PATH can be used in the shell.
Examples -

ls

Arguments are suppported

ls -ltra

Inbuilt (cd)

Change directory is an inbuilt that will switch to directory if it exists, print out an error otherwise. Examples -

cd ./src

cd ..

cd

Note that cd - and such variants will not work.

Inbuilt (exit)

Exit will (gracefully) exit from the shell and return you to your previous shell. Example -

exit

Piping

Basic pipe operations will work.
Example -

ls | grep "Cargo"