minishell

Minishell is a two person project at 42. The goal is to create to create a bash-like shell from scratch.

How to run it

First you have to compile the project :

make

You can then run the program :

./minishell

A prompt will appear in the terminal, you can type in commands as you would with Bash. For example :

echo "Hello there !"

Features

• Bash-like builtins (echo, cd, pwd, export, unset, env, exit)
• Environment variables handling
• Redirections (<, >, <<, >>)
• Pipes |
• Launch executables when given a relative/absolute path
• Also search for executables in the PATH
• Parameter expansion, quotes handling
• Signal handling (ctrl-c, ctrl-d, ctrl-)
• Commands history