keneepatel / piston-cli

A universal shell supporting 36+ languages, in terminal code editor with syntax highlight, code compiler (36+ languages). It can run code from pastebin links and files too.

Piston CLI

A cli tool which uses the piston api, developed by Engineerman and his team to compile over 35 languages instantly. Accepts files, paste.pythondiscord.com links and input.

Installation

With pip

# Installing the package
pip3.8 install piston-cli -U
# Help Command
piston -h

With Nix/NixOS

Add this to your configuration.nix

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
     piston-cli
  ];

Or if you're using home-manager

  home.packages = with pkgs; [
     piston-cli
  ];

And finally using nix-env or nix profile

# using nix-env
nix-env -i piston-cli
# using nix profile (in nixUnstable)
nix profile install nixpkgs#piston-cli

For Arch/ArchBased

With yay

yay piston-cli

With paru

paru piston-cli

Or any AUR helper you use with doesn't matter. You get the point.

Example usage

Default

Shell

File

Link

Languages

piston --list

How to run it? (Contributing)

# This will install the development and project dependencies.
pipenv sync --dev

# This will install the pre-commit hooks.
pipenv run precommit

# Optionally: run pre-commit hooks to initialize them.
# You can start working on the feature after this.
pipenv run pre-commit run --all-files

# Run it
pipenv run start

Contributing

You can comment on the issues you would like to work on.