Available in Piebald Basic (Free)
When a model wants to execute a terminal command, it uses the built-in RunTerminalCommand tool (see Default tools & system prompt). Internally, the RunTerminalCommand tool executes the given command using sh -c on UNIX systems (macOS and Linux) and cmd.exe /C on Windows. However, you can change the default shell to a preset or a custom command.
Go to Settings → Built-in Tools and select a preset for Terminal Shell. The default presets are:
UNIX:
- Bourne Shell (
/bin/sh)
- Bash (
/bin/bash)
- Zsh (
/bin/zsh)
Windows
- Command Prompt (cmd.exe)
- Windows PowerShell
- Git Bash (MinGW)
Git for Windows must be installed in order to use Git Bash in Piebald. Download it from gitforwindows.org.
Using a custom shell
You can also specify a custom shell, which is useful when you want to use a shell not explicitly mentioned above. For example, if you have custom aliases in a shell like Fish.
To use a custom shell, set Terminal Shell to Custom… and then enter each individual argument required to invoke the shell with a command. Most UNIX shells accept a -c argument, e.g. fish -c "...". Use {command} as the last argument.
Do not wrap the {command} argument in quotes unless you’re using a custom shell that requires it. When you use a custom shell, Piebald passes each argument to the shell directly without needing to quote arguments.
