A CLI tool that easily allows to compare prices for products among different stores.

This project has the following dependencies you need to have installed:

• Lua File System
• Lua-csv
• Lcurses

This project was made with lua 5.1, but should also run on lua 5.2 and luaJIT.

When you have all the dependencies, simply clone the project to a folder of your choice by running following command:

  git clone https://github.com/HerrSubset/hslm

To install the project, simply run:

  sudo make install

The program is started by typing hslm in the command line and you'll find an empty overview screen. This is the overview screen, where all your different price comparisons are listed. You can use the following commands to perform actions in this screen:

• create [name] creates a new price comparison project and immediately takes you to the corresponding page.

• delete [name] deletes one of your price comparison projects.

• To select an existing project, just type its name.

• To return to the command line, type q, back or exit.

This screen shows you the items and what they cost in different stores. There's also a column with the lowest price per item, and a row with the totals of every column. The way you interact with this screen is through the following commands:

• update [storename] [itemname] [price] allows you to set the price for a specific item in a certain store. In case the item and/or the store doesn't exist yet, it will be created.

• remove <item/store> [name] allows you to remove an item with the given name. For example, you would run remove item cpu if you want to remove the entire row of prices for the item cpu.

• Finally, you can use q, back or exit to return to the overview screen.

There's no need to save your work, it's being taken care of on the fly.