Minishell 42 Project

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage

Introduction

Minishell is a fundamental project in the 42 school curriculum, designed to introduce students to the world of systems programming and command-line interfaces. In this project, we have are have created a simple shell that mimic the behavior of the bash shell using C programing language.

Features

• Command Execution: Execute shell commands.
• Pipelines: Implementing simple command pipelines allows users to chain commands together, facilitating more complex operations.
• Redirections: Support input and output redirections.
• Environment Variables: Handle environment variables.
• Built-in Commands: Implement built-in shell commands like cd, echo, env, export, unset, exit and pwd.
• Error Handling: Provide meaningful error messages for user input.
• Signal Handling: Handle ctrl-C, ctrl-D and ctrl-\ which should behave like in bash.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• GCC (GNU Compiler Collection)
• Make

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

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

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd minishell
   
   

3. Build the project:

   make
   
   

Usage

To run the Minishell, use the following command:

./minishell