Minishell 🐚

A simple shell implementation that takes bash as a reference.

Features 🚀

• Prompt: Displays a prompt when waiting for a new command.
• History: Has a working command history.
• Command Execution: Searches and launches the right executable based on the PATH variable or using an absolute path.
• Single Quotes: Handles single quotes to prevent interpretation of meta-characters in the quoted sequence.
• Double Quotes: Handles double quotes to prevent interpretation of meta-characters, except for $ (dollar sign).
• Redirections: Implements various redirections, such as <, >, <<, and >>.
• Pipes: Implements pipes (|) for command pipelines.
• Environment Variables: Handles expansion of environment variables ($) to their values.
• $?: Handles $? to expand to the exit status of the most recently executed foreground pipeline.
• Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D, Ctrl-: Implements behavior similar to bash for these control signals.
• Builtins: Implements several built-in commands: echo, cd, pwd, export, unset, env, and exit.

Note: It does not interpret unclosed quotes or special characters that are not mentioned above.

Getting Started 🛠️

To get started with Minishell, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/damachad/42_minishell.git
2. Navigate to the project directory: cd minishell
3. Build the project: make
4. Run Minishell: ./minishell

Note: Make sure you have the required libraries installed, such as readline.

Usage Example 📝

$ ls -l > outfile.txt
$ cd ..
$ pwd
$ echo "Hello, Minishell!"
$ << EOF cat | wc
$ env
$ export MY_VARIABLE="42"
$ echo $MY_VARIABLE
$ exit 2

Documentation

• Minishell