A-Mahla / Mini-Shell

A Unix-Shell reimplemented in C inspired by Bash POSIX.

Mini-Shell - Minimalistic and Elegant Unix-inspered Shell

The aim of this project is to create a functional Shell to better understand Unix logic.

🔧 System Requirements:

• Operating System: Linux 64_X86 Distribution
• Software: gcc, make, gnu readline library

Usage

To run the Mini-Shell, open your terminal and run this command:

cd /path/to/project/directory
make && ./minishell

Functionalities implemented

• Redirections: <, >, <<, >>/
• Pipes : |.
• Expansion : $ for environment variables.
• Exit Status : $?.
• Simple Quotes : Prevent the shell from interpreting the meta-characters in the quoted sequence.
• Double Quotes : Prevent the shell from interpreting the meta-characters in the quoted sequence except for $.
• Signals : ctrl-C, ctrl-D and ctrl-\.
• Command History.

Builtins Implemented

• echo with option -n.
• cd with only a relative or absolute path.
• pwd with no options.
• export with no options.
• unset with no options.
• env with no options or arguments.
• exit with no options.