Giter VIP home page Giter VIP logo

simple_shell's Introduction

C - Simple Shell

General

  • Who designed and implemented the original Unix operating system
  • Who wrote the first version of the UNIX shell
  • Who invented the B programming language (the direct predecessor to the C programming language)
  • Who is Ken Thompson
  • How does a shell work
  • What is a pid and a ppid
  • How to manipulate the environment of the current process
  • What is the difference between a function and a system call
  • How to create processes
  • What are the three prototypes of main
  • How does the shell use the PATH to find the programs
  • How to execute another program with the execve system call
  • How to suspend the execution of a process until one of its children terminates
  • What is EOF / “end-of-file”?

List of allowed functions and system calls

  • 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 hsh

Template to test output:

=============

$ ./hsh
($) /bin/ls
hsh main.c shell.c
($)
($) exit
$`

Brief description of functions contained in project:

**_strcmpdir** :  compares strings to find dir.
**find_command** :  finds command to execute in path routes.
**charput** :  writes the character like putchar.
**place** :  similar to puts in C.
**_strlen** :  string length.
**str_concat** :  concatenate strings.
**lookforslash** :  identify if first char is a '/'.
**compareExit** :  checks if user typed exit.
**compareEnv** :  checks if user typed env.
**execute_proc** :  receives command and args from getline to be executed.
**identify_string** :  returns pointer with folder address.
**prompt** :  infinite loop with fork to keep prompt going.
**controlC**: avoid program closing when pressing ctrl + c.
**main**: initialize program.

Contact Info:

Git: Celestinah Odebunmi, Lawrence Ikhidero

simple_shell's People

Contributors

lorens247 avatar celestinat avatar

Recommend Projects

  • React photo React

    A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

  • Vue.js photo Vue.js

    🖖 Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.

  • Typescript photo Typescript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  • TensorFlow photo TensorFlow

    An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

  • Django photo Django

    The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

  • D3 photo D3

    Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉

Recommend Topics

  • javascript

    JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.

  • web

    Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.

  • server

    A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.

  • Machine learning

    Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.

  • Game

    Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.

Recommend Org

  • Facebook photo Facebook

    We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.

  • Microsoft photo Microsoft

    Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.

  • Google photo Google

    Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.

  • D3 photo D3

    Data-Driven Documents codes.