Minishell

A school 42 study project to create a limited Unix shell that functions like Bash. Focus areas: parsing command line input, process forking, I/O redirection and basic signal handling.

Build

make

Available targets:

• make — Build the executable
• make clean — Remove object files
• make fclean — Remove object files and binary
• make re — Rebuild from scratch

Usage

./minishell

Once running, the shell accepts standard Unix commands and supports:

• Executing commands from PATH (ls, cat, grep, etc.)
• Pipes (|)
• Redirections (<, >, >>, <<)
• Environment variable expansion ($VAR)
• Built-ins: echo, cd, pwd, export, unset, env, exit
• Signal handling (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\)
• Quote handling (single and double quotes)

Authors

• Manon Groos - GitHub, LinkedIn
• Marie Shulgina - GitHub, LinkedIn

License

Educational project. Not licensed for reuse.
Published for reference only — do not submit as your own work.

Note: Commit history has been removed for privacy. The project was developed across 58 days over 11 weeks (Aug–Nov 2025).