a-cs/minishell

Minishell is a project from the 2nd phase of the common core of 42 School. The goal of this project was to create a Shell similar to bash, using only C.

Minishell

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Introduction

Minishell is a project from the 2nd phase of the common core of 42 School.

The goal of this project was to create a Shell similar to bash, using only C.

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Group Members

Anderson Carneiro Sousa

Rodrigo Longhi

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How to start

*the code has been tested only on Linux

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/a-cs/minishell.git
cd minishell

Install the readline library

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

Compile

make

Run

./minishell

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Demo

*To watch the video, click on the gif.

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Builtins commands

commands	description
echo	Print the arguments to the standart output. *Accepts the -n flag.
cd	Change the shell working directory.
pwd	Print the current working directory.
export	Export variables to shell.
unset	Delete variable of the shell.
env	Print the environment.
exit	Exit the shell

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Implemented features

• Execute linux commands
• Handle environment variables and $?
• Handle double quotes
• Handle single quotes
• Handle redirects
• Handle pipes
• Handle Crtl + C, Crtl + D and Crtl + \ like bash
• History