BShell

BShell: the Bard Shell

BShell is a simple implementation of a Unix shell program. This was originally a lab project for my Computing Systems class at Bard college that I've continued working on for fun.

Currently implemented features:

• ls, cd
• jobs
• kill (with or without signals)
• '&' to run tasks in the background
• exit to exit the shell (SIGINT (Ctrl-C) is caught and does not terminate the shell)
• all shell commands that run native executables (e.g. cat, grep, tar, etc)

Features to be implemented next:

• wildcard (*) expansion, e.g. mv *.txt ..
• I/O redirection (> and <), e.g. cat file1 file2 > file3
• piping (|), e.g. cat example.txt | grep “keyword”
• tab completion
• history

(Note this code will only run in Unix environments)