Simple Shell is a command line interpreter developed in C language that emulates the most basic functionality of sh
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The man page is a file wich explains in detail how Simple Shell works. If you want see a full explanation of this function you can run our man page this way:
$ man ./man_1_simple_shell
To compile the program this command has to be executed:
$ gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=gnu89 *.c -o hsh
To run the shell is like this:
$ ./hsh
This list is of the built-in commands, apart from those found in the PATH.
Command | Description |
---|---|
env | Displays the current environment |
exit | Causes the shell to terminate |
The shell can be used in interactive or non-interactive mode. The interactive mode is how the shell is normally used, the executable file is run and we can write commands, here is an example:
$ ./hsh
hsh$ ls
file1 file2 directory/
hsh$ pwd
/home/user/simple_shell/
hsh$ echo hello_world
hello_world
hsh$ exit
$
In the non-interactive mode you pass the command to the executable file with a pipe operator, as shown in the following example:
$ echo "/bin/ls" | ./hsh
hsh main.c shell.c test_ls_2
$ cat test_ls_2 | ./hsh
hsh main.c shell.c test_ls_2
hsh main.c shell.c test_ls_2
Project developed during the Holberton School program.