What is it?

This is the program that mimic real shell. That is like little own bash or zsh.

Contributors

outoftalentxD, nemal300

Little shell should:

• Not interpret unclosed quotes or unspecified special characters like \ or ;.
• Not use more than one global variable.
• Show a prompt when waiting for a new command.
• Have a working History.
• Search and launch the right executable (based on the PATH variable or by using relative or absolute path)
• It must implement the builtins:
  • echo with option -n
  • cd with only a relative or absolute path
  • pwd with no options
  • export with no options
  • unset with no options
  • env with no options or arguments
  • exit with no options
• ’ inhibit all interpretation of a sequence of characters.
• " inhibit all interpretation of a sequence of characters except for $.
• Redirections:
  • "<" should redirect input.
  • ">" should redirect output.
  • “<<” read input from the current source until a line containing only the delimiter is seen. it doesn’t need to update history!
  • “>>” should redirect output with append mode.
• Pipes | The output of each command in the pipeline is connected via a pipe to the input of the next command.
• Environment variables ($ followed by characters) should expand to their values.
• $? should expand to the exit status of the most recently executed foreground pipeline.
• ctrl-C ctrl-D ctrl-\ should work like in bash.
• When interactive:
  • ctrl-C print a new prompt on a newline.
  • ctrl-D exit the shell.
  • ctrl-\ do nothing

Usage

make
./minishell

minishell has started ans showing you a prompt. Now use this just lika a real bash.

Examples