Welcome to our Minishell project! This project is part of the 42 curriculum and involves creating a minimalistic shell that mimics some of the functionalities of Bash.
The Minishell project is designed to deepen your understanding of how shells work by implementing your own version of a basic shell. It includes handling of essential shell features such as command parsing, environment variables, and more.
- Command execution (e.g.,
ls,echo, etc.) - Built-in commands like
cd,pwd,export,unset,env, andexit - Command line editing with history
- Handling of single and double quotes
- Redirections (
>,>>,<,<<) - Pipes (
|) - Environment variable management
- Error handling for invalid commands and syntax
- Signal handling (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D, and Ctrl-\)
- Wildcards (e.g.,
*.c) - Command substitution
- Support for logical operators (
&&,||)
To build and run Minishell on your local machine, follow these steps:
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/Geesama02/Minishell.git - Navigate to the project directory:
cd minishell - Compile the project:
make
Once compiled, you can start the minishell by running:
./minishell
As this project is made to mimic bash, you can try any commands you normally would try in bash.
If you really can't think of anything try some of the following. You do have to enter each line separately as the program doesn't handle new lines.
ls -la | grep a | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'
cat << EOF > file
cat file
rm file
ls | rev > file
cat file
rev file | cat
rm file
to exit the program:
exit
This two-person project was done with maglagal.