Lush is a shell that is accessible through a browser instead of a terminal emulator.

It is not technically a "(login) shell" but you use it where you would normally log in to a server with ssh. Or instead of opening a terminal on your own computer.

The goal of lush is to reinvent interaction with an operating system. Currently there are two major players: the command line and graphical shells. Lush is a third option that leverages the webbrowser as the UI.

See https://github.com/hraban/lush/wiki for more info.

Download and install:

$ go get github.com/hraban/lush

To run the program find the executable (somewhere in $GOPATH/bin/) and launch it. E.g.:

$ ${GOPATH%%:*}/bin/lush

Lush works just fine on Windows. The only thing that might disappoint you: it's just a shell. The common tools (ls, grep, find, cat, sed, ...) are not (yet!) provided.

Installing lush on Windows comes in two flavors: download a binary release or install from source.

The binary release will include grep, cat, etc. in v0.3.0 (release date 31 dec 2013).

Go to:

http://github.com/hraban/lush/releases

Download the latest .zip. Unzip, find lush.exe, double click it. Done.

open a command window and type:

go get github.com/hraban/lush

(Getting errors? Make sure you have Go, Git and Mercurial installed on Windows. For instructions: see https://github.com/hraban/lush/wiki/Installing-Go-on-Windows)

It will download lush (to c:\go3d\src\github.com\hraban\lush if you followed the instructions from the wiki) and install it (as c:\go3d\bin\lush.exe).

Run lush by double clicking the .exe! Create a shortcut to your desktop for easy access.

To update lush:

go get -u github.com/hraban/lush

That's it.

The code is available on github at https://github.com/hraban/lush

Feel free to contact me for more info

Hraban Luyat hraban@0brg.net 2014