Minishell Project

Welcome to MINISHELL project! This project involves creating a basic shell (similar to Bash) to deepen your understanding of processes and file descriptors in a Unix-like operating system.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

Introduction

The minishell project is a 42Network Project designed to help you gain hands-on experience with:

• Processes: How to create and manage processes using system calls like fork(), exec(), and wait().
• File Descriptors: Understanding standard input, output, and error streams, and how to redirect them. By implementing your own shell, you will explore these concepts in depth and develop a stronger grasp of how Unix-like operating systems function under the hood.

Features

• Execute built-in commands like cd, exit, and echo.
• Launch external programs.
• Handle pipe |.
• Implement input/output redirection (>, >>, <) and also Heredoc <<.
• Support for basic environment variables.
• Signals (Ctrl ^ C, Ctrl ^ \).

Installation

To install and run the minishell, follow these steps:

0. Install libreadline if it's not installed

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libreadline-dev
sudo apt install libreadline8

1. Clone the repository:

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

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd minishell

3. Compile:

   make

Usage

• Run ./minishell
• Example

minishell> ls -la
minishell> cd /path/to/directory
minishell> echo "Hello, World!" > output.txt

Happy coding!