🖥️ minishell

The first challenging 42 project: a bash terminal.

🔨 Compilation

Firstly, clone the repository into you computer directory:

git clone https://github.com/alexpg7/minishell.git minishell && cd minishell

Once cloned, just execute the make command:

make

The makecommand should notify when libft.a and minishell are compiled.

🖱️ Usage

1️⃣ 1 command mode

minishell can be executed with a command, just like with bash. For example:

./minishell echo "Hello, world!"

should output:

Hello, world!

🐚 Shell mode

To execute the usual mode, execute minishell without any other argument:

./minishell

The program should open up a prompt with your pwd and should allow you to start writing commands:

Welcome to minishell
/...(your pwd).../minishell->

From now on, you can use minishell as if it was bash, with some limitations...

⚠️ Limitations

minishell works as a functional shell, but some features have not been implemented (and will never be):

• Double pipe || operator works as a double pipe with no command in between
• &, && operators do not work
• Unclosed quotes will not be asked to be completed, they will just fail
• Pipes with no commmand (example: echo hola | | grep h) will just fail
• Wildcards * are not implemented
• Parentheses () are interpreted as regular characters, they do not stablish any priority
• Environment variables ($VAR) are interpreted after splitting arguments (this means that spaces and quotes inside VAR do not influence the command, they are not key characters)
• += operator from export command is not implemented
• ; and \ are interpreted as regular characters