minishell

A program to emulate a basic shell.

License

This software is 'protected' under the Unlicense and may be utilised freely, without warranty.

Compiling

Minishell requires your compiler to be able to compile with C11. Minishell is POSIX-compliant.

Compiling minishell:

make

or, if you want debugging turned on:

make debug

Usage

Running minishell:

cd bin
./minishell

To run any program from within the shell, just write the name of the program. Like this:

echo blah
blah

Builtin commands: \ exit exits the program \ cd changes directory of host process

To be implemented

Several features are currently missing. Here is a list:

• Run in different environments
• Truncate paths
• More builtin commands, like help
• Add args for a more interactive(?) debugging mode
• Implement redirects (write to files and similar)
• Implement a way to stop running processes without stopping the shell entirely
• Find a way to keep track of background processes
• Possibly find more efficient way to parse strings
• Add support for arrow keys
• Have more robust error checking
• Escape characters somehow