# gen-shell
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-A work in progress generic shell. This is a very reduced fork of [taskshell](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskshell)
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+=== WORK IN PROGRSS ===
+A simple way to turn any command into a shell with arrow key/history suppoert. This is a fork of [taskshell](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskshell) with a highly reduce codebase.
+
+## Usage
+Just put the command that you want to repeat as the argument
## Installation
Binaries can be downloaded [from here](https://build.bhojwani.org/job/gen-shell/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/build/src/gen-shell). Note that these binaries are compiled against libreadline7, so if your system only has libreadline8, you should symlink 8 to 7 with `sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.8.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.7`. This isn't a great solution, but it gets the job done.
- g++
- libreadline development files
-```
+```bash
git clone https://codeberg.org/armaan/gen-shell
cd gen-shell
-cmake --build .
+cmake .
+make
sudo cp src/gen-shell /usr/bin/
```
Or if you don't have root access, you can subsitute the last line with