# gen-shell
-A work in progress generic shell forked form [taskshell](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskshell)
+A simple way to turn any command into a REPL with arrow key/history support.
+
+## Usage
+See `gen-shell --help`
+
+## Installation
+Dependencies:
+ - POSIX make
+ - a c++ compiler and standard library
+ - libreadline development files (7 or 8 is fine, 5 is untested)
+
+```bash
+make
+make install
+```
+## License
+Following suit from taskshell, gen-shell is MIT licensed by Armaan Bhojwani, 2021. Gen-shell is forked from taskshell, which was developed by [these people](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskshell/blob/master/AUTHORS).
+
+Gen-shell uses the [Sarge library](https://github.com/MayaPosch/Sarge) for parsing command-line arguments. Sarge was written by Maya Posch and is BSD 3-Clause licensed.