Simple Shell

This repository is just a slight fork from its original by Peyton (me) and Allen (project partner) found here.

This is a simple UNIX shell program built in C. Supported built-in commands are listed below, otherwise this shell is capable of searching for and executing programs on the PATH.

Features

cd - built-in to change directory

cd [DIRECTORY]

env - built-in to print the current environment

env

exit - built-in to exit the shell

exit

Installation

Simply clone the repo below and compile!

https://github.com/peytonbrsmith/simple_shell

Environment

Created and tested with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Compiled with GCC 4.8.4 with flags: -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=gnu89

gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=gnu89 *.c

Usage

peytonbrsmith@penguin:~/simple_shell$ ./a.out
($) /bin/ls
a.out  builtins.c  execute.c  holberton.h  parse.c  path.c  _printf.c  README.md  simpshell.c  strtools2.c  strtools.c
($) ls -la /usr/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    80 Jul 21 23:26 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root   172 Nov  4 11:54 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22188 Nov  4 11:53 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    10 Oct 27 11:00 games
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2262 Nov  3 18:50 include
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1880 Nov  3 19:34 lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     6 Jul 21 23:26 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    72 Jul 21 00:26 local
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  4122 Nov  3 19:32 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2592 Nov  4 11:53 share
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     0 May  2  2020 src
($) pwd
/home/peytonbrsmith/simple_shell
($) cd /home/
($) pwd
/home
($) ls
peytonbrsmith
($) exit

Support

Reach out to Peyton or Allen

Project Status

Checked using Valgrind. No known memory leaks or bugs.

Currently there are no plans to continue working on the simple shell after completion of the project.