/simple_shell

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Simple Shell Project In C

This is a ReadMe file for a custom simple UNIX command line interpreter written in C programming language.

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Description

This repository contains the source codes for a Simple UNIX command line interpreter program written in C programming language. This project is done as part of our Software Engineering training given by the collaboration of ALX Africa and Holberton School.

Technologies

  • C

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How To Use

*In order to initialize the program, please run the code below

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    ./hsh

Here is the list of supported built-in commands

    Commands that are found at the <b>/bin/<b> path.
    exit - Exits the shell.
    env - Prints the current environment.
    setenv - Initializes a new environment or modifies an existing one.
    unsetenv - Removes an environment variable.
    cd - Changes current directory of the process.
    alias - Prints a list of all alliases
    help - Prints the help documentation.
    history - Prints list of executed command history

Special conditions handled include the following:-

    - Ctrl+C will not exit the shell, instead it is treated as Enter.
    - ; command separator.
    - || and && command-line logical operators.
    - $? and $$ variables.

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Authors

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