Install tasksh with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage

Commands and aliases

• tasksh

Project history

Gothenburg Bit Factory describes Taskshell as a replacement for the older built-in Taskwarrior shell command and the unsupported tasksh program bundled with Taskwarrior 2.3.0. The project's own changelog records the start of the standalone project on 2014-06-08, followed by the 1.0.0 release in 2014 with libreadline support for command editing and history.

The project later added review-oriented workflow features and Taskwarrior diagnostics in the 1.1.0 series, then continued as a separately released companion utility rather than being tied to Taskwarrior's main release cadence.

Adoption history

tasksh is packaged as a small companion CLI for Taskwarrior users rather than as a general task manager. The input package metadata lists it in multiple Unix package ecosystems, including Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, MacPorts, and Nix, which reflects its role as a familiar optional shell for Taskwarrior installations.

How it is used

Users install tasksh when they want an interactive command loop for Taskwarrior with readline conveniences and the project's review command, instead of repeatedly invoking the task command from a regular shell.

Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, tasksh matters because it split a useful but historically bundled workflow into a small, independently versioned executable. It is the kind of package that shows up beside a larger CLI because experienced users want the old interactive behavior without pinning the whole Taskwarrior stack.

Timeline

• 2014: Project started, according to the upstream ChangeLog.
• 2014: 1.0.0 released with libreadline support.
• 2016: 1.1.0 added review and diagnostic commands.
• 2017: 1.2.0 released upstream; GitHub release metadata later republishes the release set in 2022.

Related projects

• Taskwarrior is the task database and CLI that tasksh wraps.
• Gothenburg Bit Factory also publishes related command-line productivity tools such as Timewarrior.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/GothenburgBitFactory/taskshell/releases
• https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskshell/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://gothenburgbitfactory.org/tasksh/
• input.source_facts.package-manager