minishell

The objective of this project is for you to create a simple shell. Yes, your own little bash or zsh. You will learn a lot about processes and file descriptors.

With Minishell, you’ll be able to travel through time and come back to problems people faced when Windows didn’t exist.

📔 Summary

• ❓ What to do ?
• 🧱 Builtins
• ⚙️ How to run the project ?
• 📄 Documentation

❓ What to do ?

• commands parsing considering ' and "
• commands and files forwarding (<, >, >>)
• multipipe management (|)
• environment variables ($ followed by characters)
• return code $?
• signals such as ctrl-C, ctrl-D, ctrl-\

🧱 Builtins

• echo (with option -n)
• cd (with only relative or absolute path)
• pwd
• export
• unset
• env (without any options and any arguments)
• exit

⚙️ How to run the project ?

1. Clone the repository:
   git clone https://github.com/ethan0905/minishell.git
2. Compile the project:
   make -j
3. Run the program:
   ./minishell
4. Enjoy ;)

📄 Documentation

Special thanks to vietdu91 aka emtran, for his on work on that 900 lines test spreadsheet! You can go here an leave a star for the work.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uJHQu0VPsjjBkR4hxOeCMEt3AOM1Hp_SmUzPFhAH-nA/edit#gid=0

bash bible:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html