alphacharge / minishell

A selfcoded bash oriented shell

42 Minishell Project README

Overview

Welcome to Minishell, a simple UNIX command-line shell implementation developed as part of the 42 school curriculum. This project aims to provide a basic understanding of how shells work and how commands are executed in a UNIX-like environment.

Installation

This project should compile under Mac OS and Unix:

git clone https://github.com/Alphacharge/minishell.git
cd minishell
make

Dependencies

libft Lib

Description

This minishell should behave like Bash.

Following builtins are built in:

• cd (relative and absolute paths)
• echo (with -n)
• env (no options)
• exit (no options)
• export (no options)
• pwd (no options)
• unset (no options)

Signals:

• ctrl-C
• ctrl-D
• ctrl-\

Operators:

• <<
• >>
• <
• >
• |

Variables:

• normal variable expanding like $HOME
• $?

Quotes:

• Single Quotes
• Double Quotes

Usage

./minishell

Contributors

• fkernbac
• rbetz

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to the 42 school for providing the opportunity to work on this project.
• Inspiration from various UNIX shells and open-source projects.

Feel free to contribute, report issues, or suggest improvements! Happy coding!