cmd VS clesh

In CL, there is also https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd on top of uiop:run-program / launch-program to quickly run commands.

+1. To write quick shell commands, see also cmd: https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd

A nice library that makes running shell programs even easier than uiop:run-program: https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd

uiop:run/launch-program (sync/async): https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/os.html#running-external-programs and the handy cmd which builds on it: https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd

Some ideas/reminders/pointers: do not miss uiop:run-process and launch-process to run (a)sync programs; see cmd for an easier to use equivalent; see file-object-finder for a high-level lib around files (it handles file permissions). clawk replaces AWK.

To operate on files and directories, see UIOP and this new library: https://github.com/Ambrevar/fof (File Object Finder). You could start using the Lem editor and Lisp REPL, the Nyxt browser, this basic file manager (https://github.com/szos/CLFM), cmd to fire external commands (https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd).

There is https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd in particular which is very helpful.

I'm going to publish a few more libraries which should help with file manipulation (as I demoed it).

Stay tuned!

As for cmd, I just cloned it into local-projects, so it's the development version. This seems to be the line where exo is called and I don't think it's defined anywhere: https://github.com/ruricolist/cmd/blob/master/cmd.lisp#L374

Now, it's only personal, but I like to fire one-off shell commands… can we escape the Lisp REPL or not? If not, we could use a shell pass-through, for example "! ls" with clesh. Ruricolist's cmd is nice to have too. This is becoming an heresy, but what if we could fire a shell command and interpret its result with a Lisp function, or mix and match the two? Lish is doing an awesome work already, although it's a difficult field. Interactive commands like sudo and htop work there, at least. It ships a Lisp REPL and a debugger for the terminal too (similar to Roswell, then).

Clesh - extends Common Lisp to embed shell code in a manner similar to perl's backtick. (I read awesome-cl) It could ease the process to include external calls.