Bashrun provides a powerful application launcher by
running a specialized bash session in a small terminal window,
conveniently providing bash features like tab-completion and
history.
Note: This version of Bashrun is
deprecated. The 0.x series is no longer actively developed. Bugs
will be fixed only if they are reported, and no new features
will be added. It may eventually cease to work in the
future.
Please consider
using Bashrun2
instead.
Bashrun provides a powerful application launcher by
running a specialized bash session in a small terminal window,
conveniently providing bash features like tab-completion and
history.
Additional features include user configurable rules for automatically launching certain commands in a new terminal window, looking up manual and info pages, performing dict and google queries, defining bookmarks for webpages or piping command output to the clipboard.
Users can add new functionality by defining arbitrary rules for rewriting commandlines based on regular expression matches and file test operators. This makes new features like file associations or web shortcuts trivial to implement.
For more information please see the Manual and FAQ. View some Screenshots here.
The latest stable release is bashrun-0.16.1.tar.gz. See the Changelog for details.
It is recommended to also install xdotool (>=1.20100416.2809). Bashrun can use xdotool to keep running in the background, reducing startup time and saving resources.
ArchLinux users may install bashrun and xdotool from the community repository.
$ tar vxf bashrun-0.16.1.tar.gz
$ cd bashrun-0.16.1/
$ su -c './install.sh'
Bashrun will install into /usr/local by
default. Use the --prefix option to install
to a different location. You may also run the install script as
a non priviledged user, e.g. to install into your home
directory.
Bashrun is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The sourceforge project page can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bashrun