mysh – MY SHell in C

mysh is a personal project i'm building to replicate the basic behavior of unix shells,
this isn't production-ready, this is purely for learning purposes.

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Features

• basic command execution using fork() and execvp()
• built-in commands:
  • cd (supports cd ~ and cd -)
  • clear
  • exit
• readline-based input with command history
• prompt displays the current working directory

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Build Instructions

make sure you have gcc and readline development libraries installed

Install dependencies (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libreadline-dev

Compile:

make

Clean build files:

make clean

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Run the Shell

./mysh

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