# Luash 

A lua preprocessor for shell scripting.

## Why

Although traditional POSIX shells are highly portable and can be extremely fast, their syntax can be arduous to read.

Lua is a lightweight and fast language that already has the features needed to become a great scripting language.

This project aims to add syntactic sugar to make the process of write commands in lua much easier.

Inspired by other projects such as Xonsh and Ruby.

## Features

Shell execution via backticks

```lua
files = `ls -a`
```

Variable substitution in shell commands

```lua
dir = "/"
files = `ls #{dir}`
```

Environment variable access

```lua
print($SHELL)
terminal = $TERM

print("This will just print normally $SHELL")
print("This will substitute with the environment variable ${SHELL}")
```