Smartphones have their apps, Web browsers have their apps, shells don’t. With Metabrik, we tried to merge the power of shells with the power of the Perl language by creating a platform allowing to quickly write reusable Briks.

Metabrik goals:

• Glue the Perl language with a shell
• Give a standardised API to write reusable Briks
• Self-documented Briks to make them easy to use
• Only 4 main shell commands to remember: use, set, get, run

Metabrik features:

• Completion on Brik names, Commands and Attributes
• Completion on file manipulation
• Completion on Perl variable names
• Command history and recalling
• Customization support with a .rc file
• Scripting support
• Multiple Brik repositories support

Metabrik helps you to concentrate on scenarios instead of wasting your time searching how to use a program. You just have to reuse available Briks to perform your everyday job.
The two main ideas behind Metabrik are:

• You have the brain, code has the details
• Do it once