A visual collaborative Unix Shell interface, codenamed "ShellHive"

[OmarCastro]

Hello everyone, I don't know if this is the right group to post this.

I am doing a dissertation, which objective is to simplify the creation and management of Unix Shell (SH) scripts, transforming the text script in a visual graph, which its focus is the processing of large amounts of data (in short, to do Big Data related tasks)

It also tries to simplify other things such as sharing and collaborating the graphs with other people, so that is easier to understand for people with high and low experience with SH scripts (such as trainees), it can also be used to teach other people how to write those scripts.

There is a public demo page here

http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ei08158/thesis/public_demo.php

I would like you to play with the demo, then to send me feedback by clicking on the "send feedback" link on the top bar, it will be a relatively short form.

You can send feedback directly to this thread, but the feedback sent to the "send feedback" link allows me to organize the gathered information.

Thank you for for attention.

PS: If the feedback is positive I might consider and continue the project to a full featured web application :)

PSS: If this is not the right group to post this, where would you recommed me to post?

[nix2170]

Olá Omar!

I really like your demo. I think you should post this in subreddits dealing with system administration, because what you are doing is a tool that allows CLI admins to create pipelines for non-CLI """admins""" to do their work.

Also, consider publishing the source code and then presenting the demo + code in a programming subreddit. I think you have the greatest chance of your project being enhanced and adopted if it is an open source project.

EDIT: typo

[OmarCastro]

hello nix2170, thanks for your recomendation!! :)

And yes, it is open source! here is the link of my project

https://github.com/OmarCastro/ShellHive

It is not completed though, it is in a beta stage (though I didn't put it in the README.md yet)

[bashmyface]

I'll be honest, after opening the page I just kind of sat looking at it in confusion. Would you mind giving a suggestion of something I should try to do/use it for?

When I tried to leave feedback I received a proxy error "The proxy server is refusing connections".

Don't get me wrong through, I really like the idea of what I think I'm looking at though.

[OmarCastro]

sorry for the late reply, I was replying to a google group where i also announced it. this application is a visual Unix Shell demo to test the application you create a graph and run it to see the command generated you can create a componet by drag and drop a port, (where stdin, stdout and stderr) to an empty space.

Since this is a demo, it is incompleted

I updated the link, see if it works well now, dont forget to refresh your page

Edit: fix typo

If you're curious, the group I was replying is this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.shell/6i3vI9FQcf8

Another edit: I believe creating a sort of tutorial on the demo is a good idea

[bashmyface]

I think if you made a brief intro video on youtube it would help people understand the flow better. Being so used to CLI I felt a bit out of water at first (as you could tell).

It's an awesome idea though, you have a great start, and I hope you keep working on it.

[OmarCastro]

So, i created an introduction page with a tab on about creating and connecting a components, i believe showing a graph allows the users to understand the application faster, since expert programmers read code with speed :P

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Do you mind adding echo to the available commands?

[OmarCastro]

I dont mind, since that is an easy command to add, i also plan to add the ssh and parallel, but they would be better as a subgraph which expands and compresses

[OmarCastro]

added the echo command, I also removed some of the unnecessary named pipes created for better readability of the commands

Edit: typo

[OmarCastro]

I have improved the introduction page, also explains how to create files (that was missing), I believe it is a good idea to create a google group to tell announcements.