A simple UNIX command interpreter. An immitation of the fantastic Bourne-again SHell a.k.a bash. I can't find a suitable name for my shell. Every Unix shell out there is an acronym of some words ending with the word "shell", like bash or zsh which stands for Z shell.
This shell is named hsh.
ALX Africa gave me the opportunity to work on this project during studying in their sorfware engineering program.
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To use this project, first clone the repo on your device using the command below:
git clone https://github.com/Abdorithm/simple_shell.git
Then, the repo will be downloaded on your machine.
You can also download it as a zip file or fork it to your account.
After installation, fire up your terminal and navigate to the simple_shell directory.
To run the new shell, run this command:
user@os:~/simple_shell$ ./hsh
Now you can execute commands using our hsh instead of bash or whatever the shell in your system.
abdo@pop:~/simple_shell$ ./hsh ^-^$ ls builtin_exit.c hsh main.c ^-^$ echo "hello, shell!" "hello, shell!" ^-^$ exit abdo@pop:~/simple_shell$
There are a numerous number of command a UNIX shell can intrepeter. To keep it short, following is a list of the commands that are not implemented yet. When these are implemented, I will delete the word "simple" from the repo name.
- Most built-ins, like the
cdcommand andalias. - Logical operators and command separators.
- File as input, and comments.
Otherwise, hsh works as expected, for more info about the development of this shell, I will write a DEV.md.