niceshell - Python 3 module for better shell coding

Requirements

• Python 3.6+ (tested on 3.6.0)

Installation

Automatic installation

python3 -m pip install niceshell

Manual installation

cd /tmp/
version=2.0.3 # Choose desired version
wget -c "https://github.com/Andrew15-5/niceshell/releases/download/v${version}/niceshell-${version}-py3-none-any.whl"
python3 -m pip -U --user install niceshell-${version}-py3-none-any.whl

Usage

from niceshell import *
ext = "py"

process1 = ls(f"*.{ext}", batch=True)
if process1.exit_code():
    print("No Python scripts here. :(")
    print("stderr:", process1.error_output(), end='')
    exit(1)

process2 = ls(f"*.{ext}", True).shell("head -n 5")
print("stdout:", process2.output(), end='')
files = process2.get_lines()

ln(files, "/tmp/").wait()

Important note

Due to different preferences among coders some things like:

• raised error instead of silently returned error code or None
• type of raised error and its message;
• behavior of edge cases (the way parameter's data is handled);
• parameter names and their ordinal position
• behavior of command with provided input text (with sudo)

can be inconvenient to some extent for someone and be perfect for others. Therefore, I encourage everyone to test result of each function, method, variable, constant, etc. to be 100% sure of how your script/program/app will handle every situation.

There are some tests in "tests" directory (./niceshell/tests/) to get you started. And of course you can see implementation of whatever the module provides for better understanding of what you are looking for.

Complete list of modules and their functions/classes

Note: list can be exteneded in future updates.

• __init__
  • GID ($USER's group ID)
  • GROUP ($USER's group name)
  • HOME ($USERS's home dir aka '~')
  • UID ($USER's ID)
  • USER ($USER)
• core
  • expose_tilde()
  • normalize_short_and_long_args()
  • quotes_wrapper()
  • shell()
  • Shell
  • ShortArgsOption
• extra
  • force_sudo_password_promt()
  • get_root_privileges()
  • get_root_privileges_or_exit()
  • has_root_privileges()
  • list_dirs()
  • list_files()
• gnu_coreutils
  • cd()
  • cp()
  • ln()
  • ls()
  • mv()
  • pwd()
  • rm()

TODO list

• Add grep
• Add dirname and basename
• Add pwd
• Add functions to get dirs and files from path
• Add ability to install module via pip
• Add ability to get command's output and pipe it to another command
• Add function that check if sudo can be used without password
• Add ability to provide input to command in core.Shell
• Add cd
• Add mv
• Add rm
• Add cp