42-Minishell

Overview

The minishell project is a basic shell program created as part of 42 School. It replicates essential features of a Unix shell, including executing commands, handling pipes and redirections, and managing environment variables. This project is an introduction to the world of system programming, process creation, and signal handling in C, giving students insight into how a shell operates internally.

Getting started

To compile and execute minishell, you will need to install readline library.

If you are on macOS, make sure you have installed Xcode Command Line Tools and Homebrew.

• Linux

sudo apt install libreadline-dev

• macOS

brew install readline

Once readline is installed, you can continue with the following steps.

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/extrymes/42-Minishell.git
cd 42-Minishell

2. Compile and launch the program

make
./minishell

Features

• Running executables located in PATH environment variable.
• Running built-in commands like echo, cd, pwd, export, unset, env, and exit.
• Handling pipe (|), heredoc (<<) and redirections (<, >, >>).
• Handling environment variables like bash.
• Handling signals CTRL-C, CTRL-D, and CTRL-\ like bash.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from everyone! Whether you're fixing bugs, adding new features, improving documentation, or simply sharing your ideas, your input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for visiting and happy coding!