- This is a collaborative project made by Sangwani P. Zyambo and Brendah Uwitonze, Students of software engineering at ALX/Holberton school. This repo contains files for the simple_shell project. The project requires us to develop our own UNIX command interpreter (shell).
These are the files with custom system calls and functions with a brief description.
| file | Description |
|---|---|
| 'shell.h' | Header file with prototypes |
| 'shell.c' | Main File to execute |
| 'README.md' | Readme.md file |
| 'man_1_simple_shell' | The manual Page |
| 'str_helpers.c' | File containing functions to help with string manipulation |
| 'path_helpers.c' | File containing functions to help with PATH handling |
| 'built-ins.c' | File containing buitins |
| 'helpers.c' | File containing helper functions such as exec_cmd |
This simple_shell project is designed to run on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using gcc, and can be compiled using the options -wall - werror -wextra -pedantic -std=gnu89 The code should use the Betty style.
- Display a prompt and wait for the user to type a command.
- If an executable cannot be found, print an error message and display the prompt again.
- Handle errors
- Hand the EOF(Ctrl + D) condition.
- Handle the Ctrl +C to not terminate the shell.
- Handle th command line with arguments.
- Handle the PATH.
- Support the exit features.
- exit 'terminates the shell'
- env 'display the environment'
- Sangwani P. Zyambo - sangwani-coder
- Brendah Uwitonze - Uwitonzebrendah