Shiba CLI

Command-line interface (CLI) to display a random Shiba Inu whenever needed, by just running shiba on your terminal.

How To Use • How Does It Work? • Why? • Build Manually • TODOs

How to use

Note: Pre-compiled binaries will be available soon. Currently, you need to compile the program on your machine. Fortunately, Rust makes this process extremely easy.

Install Rust

If you don't have Rust installed on your system, you will need to install it.

Linux, macOS, and Unix-based systems

Run the following in your terminal

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Follow the on-screen instructions

Windows

Download the installer from here
Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions

Install Shiba

cargo install --git https://github.com/giacomo-b/shiba.git

You should be able to just run shiba from anywhere on your system, and that should present you with a new picture every time.

How does it work?

shiba CLI is based on shibe.online, which provides a free, public API to get random shibes.

Why?

Why not?

Build manually

TL;DR: compile with Rust and move the binary/executable to a folder in your path.

If you don't have Rust on your system, follow the instructions above to install it.

Build the program

Get the code

You can clone the repo using SSH by running:

git clone git@github.com:giacomo-b/shiba.git

Alternative methods to get the code

You may also:

Clone using HTTPS

git clone git@github.com:giacomo-b/shiba.git

Download the zip.

Compile with Rust

cd shiba && cargo build --release

Run

To run the code from the shiba folder, run:

cargo run --release

or just launch the binary generated in shiba/target/release.

If you want to be able to run shiba from any location on your system, you will have to move the generated binary to the appropriate folder depending on your system:

Linux and most Unix-based systems

Run the following from within the shiba folder

sudo mv ./target/release/shiba /bin/

Restart terminal

macOS

Run the following from within the shiba folder

sudo mv ./target/release/shiba /usr/local/bin/

Restart terminal

Windows

Place shiba.exe (found in shiba/target/release/) in a directory of your choice (such as C:\your\path\here\)
Run the following:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\your\path\here\

Restart terminal

Now you should be able to just run shiba from anywhere on your system, and that should present you with a new picture every time.

TODOs

Add CI workflows
- Perform compilation checks
- Automatically generate builds
Reduce binary size (?)
Add command-line options
- shibe.online's API accepts count, maybe more than one Shiba could be display on demand?