Simple Shell

The Simple Shell is a Holberton School project that will test the skills in C coding for the students in the first trimester of the school. This is a command interpreter that will allow you to type some commands and performa actions from them.

Table of Contents

• Authors
• Installation
• Use
• Commands
• Examples of use

Installation

In order to use the shell it is necessary to install the shell first by using the following commands from your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/thecamo1509/simple_shell.git

This will create a new directory, now move to the directory using:

cd simple-shell/

Now you will be inside the shell directory and you will see different files. These files are used to compile the shell. In order to compile it please use:

gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic *.c -o hsh

That's it now you have your shell installed on your system

Use

Now let's execute our shell in order to execute the shell just type from your terminal the command

./hsh

This will open a shell and it will look like this

#cisfun$ 

Now you are on the shell and it is waiting for you to type a command. Next we will see a list of commands. Now we will show you how you can exit the shell. You can use either one of these commands:

#cisfun$ exit

Or you can also do Ctrl + D And this will also terminate the simple shell.

Some Commands

Here we share with you a list of some commands you can use, there are many more, try to experiment with it.

• /bin/ls
• ls
• pwd
• echo
• vim
• touch
• mkdir
• rm
• ifconfig
• mv
• cp

And many more...

Examples of use

Let's take a look at these examples:

#cisfun$ ls -l
#cisfun$ echo Hello World
#cisfun$ pwd
#cisfun$ /bin/ls

These commands will execute the following:

 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   170 Nov 27 21:44 AUTHORS
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   481 Nov 27 21:44 function_getenv.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   304 Nov 26 21:56 function_read_line.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   749 Nov 26 22:03 function_str_concat.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   366 Nov 26 22:00 function_strcmp.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   234 Nov 26 20:19 function_strlen.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   614 Nov 26 23:39 function_token.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   481 Nov 27 21:44 functions.h
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28368 Nov 27 21:47 hsh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   661 Nov 26 23:48 l_path.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3219 Nov 27 21:47 shell_01.c
#cisfun$

Thanks for reading

Author

• Daniel Chinome - Github / Twitter
• Camilo Morales - Github / Twitter