BAShell

This repository contains the files for alx-Holberton's simple_shell project. It can be compiled using GCC and will execute a simple shell that can be used for some basic tasks and programs most commonly found in the $PATH.

Pre-requisites

Authorized functions and macros:

• access (man 2 access)
• chdir (man 2 chdir)
• close (man 2 close)
• closedir (man 3 closedir)
• execve (man 2 execve)
• exit (man 3 exit)
• _exit (man 2 _exit)
• fflush (man 3 fflush)
• fork (man 2 fork)
• free (man 3 free)
• getcwd (man 3 getcwd)
• getline (man 3 getline)
• isatty (man 3 isatty)
• kill (man 2 kill)
• malloc (man 3 malloc)
• open (man 2 open)
• opendir (man 3 opendir)
• perror (man 3 perror)
• read (man 2 read)
• readdir (man 3 readdir)
• signal (man 2 signal)
• stat (__xstat) (man 2 stat)
• lstat (__lxstat) (man 2 lstat)
• fstat (__fxstat) (man 2 fstat)
• strtok (man 3 strtok)
• wait (man 2 wait)
• waitpid (man 2 waitpid)
• wait3 (man 2 wait3)
• wait4 (man 2 wait4)
• write (man 2 write)

GCC command to compile:

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

This wil compile all the '.c' files and change the output's name to 'BAShell'.

Features

BAShell is a simple shell made in C to interact with a linux operating system.

Test Output

It works both

Interactive mode:

firdaus$|./BAShell
BAShell$ ls
AUTHORS    builtin.c        main.c    shell.h
BAShell    extra_strings.c  memory.c  strings.c
README.md  extra_tools.c    parser.c  tools.c
BAShell$ exit
firdaus$|

Non-interactive mode:

$| echo "ls" | ./hsh
AUTHORS    builtin.c        main.c    shell.h
BAShell    extra_strings.c  memory.c  strings.c
README.md  extra_tools.c    parser.c  tools.c
$|

To exit program in interactive mode:

The output of this program when executed it look like:

exit

Example

ls -l *.c