Introducing nxtsh - the command line interface to our favorite brick

First of all happy new year to everyone here. A lot of my christmas vacation was spent on making a shell that allows for easy file manipulation on the NXT brick from linux. My other computer is a linux machine, and I want to be able to use that when my wife wants to use the mac.

So I dug up Douglas P. Laus excellent NXT_Python module that does everything you need in terms of managing files on the brick, and then I added a shell on top. You can find it here: http://www.danbbs.dk/~kibria/nxt/nxtsh.py.

A couple of notes:

• You need the NXT_Python package, and you need the packages that NXT_Python requires. You can find these at Douglas' page.
• The pyusb link on Douglas' page seems broken - use the SourceForge page instead if you have problems
• This can as far as I can see only run as root when using USB due to a restriction in the pyusb module used by NXT_Python.

If you find this useful or have suggestions, drop me a note. I might update this further (command completion and readline support springs to mind), but I made it so I could play with nbc, so don't hold your breath.