Simple Shell

Simple linux shell written in C++. Created as a university project for Operating Systems course. You can study project_definition.pdf for more details.

Features

• Support basic commands like exit, ls, cd and cat.
• Piping implemented (<cmd1> | <cmd2>) via pipe and dup2 syscalls. Multiple piping is allowed.
• Aliasing and unaliasing are supported like alias ll=ls -lah and unalias ll.
• Batch mode is supported using the command fshell somefile.
• Program invocation with forking and child processes.
• By pressing Ctrl+C a new prompt will be printed and ready for getting new commands.

Build and Run

Navigate to the project location.

  make

A file named main will be created. Execute it using the following command.

  ./main