Re: A Lua shell as a replacement for e.g. BASH

[René Rebe <rene@...>]

Hi,

Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Max van Rooij (van Rooij Electronics
> Design & Software Engineering) <mvrooij@vanrooij-edse.nl> wrote:
>   
> > Dear,
> >
> > I'm looking for a shell replacement on a Linux box. This box is currently
> > using Bash, but I would like to have a Lua shell instead. Is something like
> > this available?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Max
> >     
>
> A quick google search turned up: http://freshmeat.net/projects/luabash/
>
> I have never tried it though.
>   
Heh, this luabash Valentin and I have written for the T2 SDE 
(http://t2-project.org)
is not a whole shell, but a bridge to use Lua within the Bash, to 
implement complex
algorithms clasically expressed with sed, awk, perl, ... with Lua code 
within shell scripts.

The freshmeat description clearly states this.

Yours,

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