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Is gregwebs/Shelly.hs beginner-friendly?

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Indexed issues
30
Dominant language
Haskell
License
BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push
Apr 1, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 21, 2026
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  • bashArgs sanitize
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#237 ·

  • Switch to `System.OsPath` of `filepath-1.4.100`
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#220 ·

  • asyncSh is prone to output corruption
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    re: concurrency

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#218 · 3 comments ·

  • How to define MonadShControl for a newtype?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#212 ·

  • Flag `lifted` is broken --- remove?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug testing

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#209 ·

  • PATH reported by shelly does not match PATH in shell
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    path upstream

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#200 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Improve documentation/safety of hasExt
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#190 ·

  • run_ (vs. run) disables the operation of log_stdout_with and log_stderr_with
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#181 ·

  • case-insensitive environment variable handling on Windows breaks in bash
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    os: windows

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#177 · 6 comments ·

  • Commands with shell interface should support the Sh monad
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#173 · 1 comment ·

  • Command blocks on large stdin
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#172 ·

  • Shelly automatically appends ".exe" on command names
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#165 · 2 comments ·

  • echo doesn't do variable expansion.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#164 ·

  • Inconsistency between what is displayed and what is being executed
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#161 · 1 comment ·

  • cp_r loops
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#154 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Export State(..) from Shelly
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#139 · 2 comments ·

  • document Shelly vs Shelly.Lifted vs Shelly.Pipe
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#135 ·

  • Add withTmpFile?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#134 · 1 comment ·

  • retrieve PID of child process
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#132 · 6 comments ·

  • print_commands cannot be captured by custom loggers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#129 · 2 comments ·

  • Run commands as a different user (sudo -i)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#122 · 9 comments ·

  • cp_r function does not preserve symlinks (unlike cp -r) in copied directory
    Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#111 · 4 comments ·

  • Shelly cannot see `PATH`… because on Windows it may be named `Path`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    os: windows path

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#110 · 1 comment ·

  • touchfile does not update modification time
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#102 · 9 comments ·

  • More effecient piping with large data
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#86 · 1 comment ·

  • How to interpret stdout as utf8?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#83 · 5 comments ·

  • Spurious newline being added
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#60 · 21 comments ·

  • Find commands build up large list
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#23 ·

  • Allow traversal of symbolic links with find*
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#21 · 20 comments ·

  • Efficient writing of stdout to a file.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gregwebs/Shelly.hs#18 · 3 comments ·

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