twosheds

If you really want to "badassify" your shell, check out twosheds, a library that I wrote for making shells in Python. [1] My motivation was that learning bash scripting sucks, and it's hard to do many things that should be easy (like automatically running a command when certain conditions change). With twosheds, it's just Python, so the limit is your imagination. twosheds still needs some work to get POSIX compliance, but it's already usable enough that I've replaced bash with my custom shell, Shell, which I've hacked to, among other things, print a ton on information on Git's status and the file system-- I never type git status or ls anymore. [2] If this sounds interesting, I encourage you to fork it and give it a try. [1]: https://github.com/Ceasar/twosheds [2]: https://github.com/Ceasar/Shell

This is awesome. Can't imagine wanting to use anything else now. Folks who like the library aspect of this and are interested in building similar things for bash instead of python might want to check out twosheds [0], a library by a friend of mine that lets you do zsh-type-stuff in Python. [0] https://github.com/Ceasar/twosheds