/simple_shell

Unix Command Interpreter for ALX Software Engineering Sprint Final

Primary LanguageC

Simple Shell

A UNIX COMMAND LINE INTERPRETER

Tcsh_ejecutándose_en_escritorio_Mac_OSX

INSTALL

Set up the Simple Shell by following these steps:

  1. Clone the repository: 
    git clone https://github.com/Anoonaa/simple_shell.git
  2. Navigate to the project directory: 
    cd simple_shell
  3. Compile the source code: 
    gcc -o simple_shell *.c

Start the Simple Shell ! : 

./simple_shell

List of Functions and System Calls

  • access (man 2 access)
  • chdir (man 2 chdir)
  • close (man 2 close)
  • closedir (man 3 closedir)
  • execve (man 2 execve)
  • exit (man 3 exit)
  • _exit (man 2 _exit)
  • fflush (man 3 fflush)
  • fork (man 2 fork)
  • free (man 3 free)
  • getcwd (man 3 getcwd)
  • getline (man 3 getline)
  • getpid (man 2 getpid)
  • isatty (man 3 isatty)
  • kill (man 2 kill)
  • malloc (man 3 malloc)
  • open (man 2 open)
  • opendir (man 3 opendir)
  • perror (man 3 perror)
  • read (man 2 read)
  • readdir (man 3 readdir)
  • signal (man 2 signal)
  • stat (__xstat) (man 2 stat)
  • lstat (__lxstat) (man 2 lstat)
  • fstat (__fxstat) (man 2 fstat)
  • strtok (man 3 strtok)
  • wait (man 2 wait)
  • waitpid (man 2 waitpid)
  • wait3 (man 2 wait3)
  • wait4 (man 2 wait4)
  • write (man 2 write)

General

This shell should work like this in interactive mode:

$ ./hsh
($) /bin/ls
hsh main.c shell.c
($)
($) exit
$

But also in non-interactive mode:

$ echo "/bin/ls" | ./hsh
hsh main.c shell.c test_ls_2
$
$ cat test_ls_2
/bin/ls
/bin/ls
$
$ cat test_ls_2 | ./hsh
hsh main.c shell.c test_ls_2
hsh main.c shell.c test_ls_2
$

AUTHOR

Anoona Sithole