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🐚 Minishell | 42 Project

A minimalist UNIX shell written in C.

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📖 Overview

Minishell is a 42 project where you create a simplified version of a UNIX shell (like bash or zsh), featuring:
✔ Basic command execution (ls, grep, etc.)
✔ Environment variable handling ($PATH, $HOME)
✔ Redirections (>, >>, <, <<)
✔ Pipes (|)
✔ Signals (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\)
✔ Builtins (echo, cd, export, unset, env, exit)

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🚀 Getting Started

📋 Prerequisites

• 42 School’s libft (or your own C library)
• Basic understanding of:
  • Processes & forks (fork(), execve())
  • File descriptors (open(), dup2(), pipe())
  • Signals (signal(), sigaction)

📥 Installation

git clone https://github.com/iaceene/Minishell_42.git
cd minishell
make

🛠 Usage

Run the shell:

./minishell

Exit with:

exit

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� Features Breakdown

Feature	Status	Details
Command Parsing	✅	Splits input by `
Redirections	✅	Supports >, >>, <, << (heredoc)
Pipes	✅	Handles multiple pipes (`cmd1
Builtins	✅	echo, cd, export, etc.
Signals	✅	Ctrl-C (interrupt), Ctrl-D (EOF)
Env Variables	✅	Expands $USER, $PATH, etc.

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📚 Resources

🔗 42 Subject (Official PDF)
🔗 UNIX Shell Guide (Bash Reference)
🔗 Advanced Pipe Handling (Systems Programming PDF)

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🤝 Contributing

Found a bug? Want to improve Minishell?

1. Fork the repo.
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b fix/awesome-feature).
3. Submit a Pull Request.