minishell

A simple shell.

This program was developed by Yuta-Fujimoto and AuroraSloan

Features

Simple commands

• Search and launch any executable in $PATH

Builtin commands

Command	Options / Arguments
echo	-n
cd	relitvie or absolute path
pwd	n/a
export	no options
unset	no options
env	n/a
exit	no options

Expansion

• ' inhibits all interpretions of a sequence of characters
• " inhibits all interpretation of a sequence of characters except for $
• Environment values expand to their values
• $? expands to the most recently executed foreground pipeline

Redirection

• < redirects input
• > redirects output
• << reads input from the current source until a linie containing only the delimiter is seen
• >> redirects output with append mode

Piping

• The output of each command in the pipeline is connected via a pipe to the input of the next command

Signals

• Ctrl-c prints a new prompt on a new line
• Ctrl-d exits the shell
• Ctrl-\ does nothing

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Installation

git clone https://github.com/AuroraSloan/minishell.git

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Usage

First, create the executable with make
make - compiles the minishell executable
make clean - removes all object files
make fclean - removes all object files and the executable
make re - removes all object files and the executable before recompiling the program

In order to run the program, simply run the executable.

./minishell

To exit the program, you can use the builtin command exit or press Ctrl-d.