https://github.com/abs-lang/abs

Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting.
https://github.com/abs-lang/abs

bash golang programming-language scripting scripting-language scripting-languages shell shell-scripting

Last synced: about 1 month ago
JSON representation

Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/abs-lang/abs
• Owner: abs-lang
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-12-16T08:45:08.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-02-25T01:58:15.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T01:25:55.037Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: bash, golang, programming-language, scripting, scripting-language, scripting-languages, shell, shell-scripting
• Language: Go
• Homepage: https://www.abs-lang.org
• Size: 32.9 MB
• Stars: 513
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 35
• Open Issues: 59
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Awesome Lists containing this project

• awesome-repositories - abs-lang/abs - Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting. (Go)

README

        


  

    

  





  

    

  

  

    

  

  

    

  

  

  

  


  

  

  

  


  

  

  

  



# The ABS programming language

ABS is a programming language that works best when you're scripting on

your terminal. It tries to combine the elegance of languages

such as Python, or Ruby with the convenience of Bash.

``` bash

tz = `cat /etc/timezone`

continent, city = tz.split("/")

echo("Best city in the world?")

selection = stdin()

if selection == city {

  echo("You might be biased...")

}

```

See it in action:

[![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/218909.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/218909)

Let's try to fetch our IP address and print the sum of its

parts if it's higher than 100. Here's how you do it

in Bash:

``` bash

# Simple program that fetches your IP and sums it up

RES=$(curl -s 'https://api.ipify.org?format=json' || "ERR")

if [ "$RES" = "ERR" ]; then

    echo "An error occurred"

    exit 1

fi

IP=$(echo $RES | jq -r ".ip")

IFS=. read first second third fourth < 100 {

    echo("The sum of [$ip] is a large number, $total.")

}

```

Wondering how to run this code? Grab the latest

[release](https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/releases) and run:

```

$ abs script.abs

```

## Installation

The easiest way is to:

``` bash

bash <(curl https://www.abs-lang.org/installer.sh)

```

then you can:

``` bash

$ abs path/to/scripts.abs

```

## Documentation

Visit [abs-lang.org](https://www.abs-lang.org) or check the [examples directory](https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/tree/master/examples),

which contains a few short scripts.

## Contributing

Want to hack on ABS locally? The recommended development

environment is inside a Docker container — simply:

* `make build` (builds the container)

* `make run` (sends you inside the development container)

* `make test` (runs the abs tests)

After you make any change, run `make test` and check

if any errors pop up. If everything looks fine that means

you're ready to [open a pull request](https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/pulls)!

## Status

ABS is fresh and under active development; exciting

things happen on a weekly basis!

Have a look at the roadmap [here](https://github.com/abs-lang/abs/milestones):

to know of what version we're currently working on take a look at [abs-lang.org/misc/technical-details](https://www.abs-lang.org/misc/technical-details).