Minishell is a simple and lightweight shell, coded from scratch, which emulates several functionalities from bash.

This shell covers the following functionalities:

• Show a prompt when waiting for a new command
• Search and launch the right executable (based on the PATH variable or by using relative or absolute path) like in bash
• Implement some builtins like in bash:
  • echo with option ’-n’
  • cd with only a relative or absolute path
  • pwd without any options
  • export without any options
  • unset without any options
  • env without any options and any arguments
  • exit without any options
• ; in the command separates commands like in bash
• ’ and " like in bash except for multiline commands
• Redirections < > “>>” like in bash except for file descriptor aggregation
• Pipes | like in bash except for multiline commands
• Environment variables like in bash
• $? like in bash
• ctrl-C, ctrl-D and ctrl-\ have same result as in bash

Clone the project

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

Go to the project directory

    cd project-directory

Compile source code

    make

Run the shell

    ./minishell

This project has been exhaustively tested with @cacharle minishell tester achieving a 100% coverage. We highly recommend to use it:

    pip3 install minishell-test
    cd <MINISHELL>
    minishell_test

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If you find any issue we suggest that you open a PR with the fix 🙂