minishell

Description

The point of minishell is to make a simple shell that mimics certain bash functionalities.

Core Features

• Implementation of a prompt waiting for commands.
• Execution of basic commands found in the PATH.
• Implementation of key built-in commands: echo, cd, pwd, export, unset, env, exit.
• Handling of environment variables.
• Implementation of simple redirections (>, <, >>) and pipes (|).
• Handling of $? to reflect the return status of the last executed command.
• Signal handling (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\).

Bonus Features

Advanced functionalities enhance the basic implementation, such as:

• Advanced Redirections: Handling of more complex redirection scenarios.
• Command line editing: Implementing features allowing line editing with termcap.
• Improved expandability: Better handling of environment variables and expansions.

Compatibility & Size

Usage

To clone the repository and the subdir, use:

git clone https://github.com/moop250/minishell.git

Compilation & cleanup:

• make : Compiles the minishell program.
• make debug : Compiles the program wih an address sanitizer.
• make all : Compiles evrything.
• make re : Cleans and recompiles the minishell program.
• make clean : Cleans up object files (.o).
• make fclean : Cleans up all files generated by running make, including the executable.
• make help : Shows the possible make commands.

Example usage:

./minishell

This will start the minishell, presenting a command prompt for running shell commands.