Minishell

The Minishell project is part of the 42 school curriculum, challenging students to create a simple Unix shell with basic functionalities. This project aims to improve understanding of processes, signals, file descriptors, and various system calls.

Overview

The Minishell program is designed to provide a basic shell environment with features such as:

• Command execution: Executes commands entered by the user with the ability to handle simple commands and their options.
• Built-in commands: Supports built-in commands such as cd, echo, env, export, pwd, unset and exit.
• Environment variables: Manages and modifies the shell's environment variables.
• Redirection and pipes: Handles input and output redirection, as well as piping between commands.

Usage

1. Clone the project:

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

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd minishell

3. Compile the executable:

make

4. Run the program:

./minishell

5. Enter commands in the shell prompt:

$ ls -l
$ echo "Hello, Minishell!"
$ cd /path/to/directory
$ exit

• To clean up object files:

make clean

• To delete all build files:

make fclean

• To clean and rebuild the executable:

make re