myShell_linux

The Shell or Command Line Interpreter is the fundamental User interface to an operating system. shell—myshell—that has the following properties:

1. The shell support the following internal commands:
   • cd —Change the current default directory to . If the argument is not present, report the current directory. If the directory does not exist, an appropriate error should be reported. This command should also change the PWD environment variable.
   • clr—Clear the screen.
   • dir —List the contents of directory .
   • environ—List all the environment strings.
   • echo —Display on the display followed by a new line (multiple spaces/tabs may be reduced to a single space).
   • help—Display the user manual using the more filter.
   • pause—Pause operation of the shell until “Enter” is pressed.
   • quit—Quit the shell.
   • The shell environment should contain shell=/myshell where /myshell is the full path for the shell executable (not a hardwired path back to your directory, but the one from which it was executed).
2. All other command line input is interpreted as program invocation, which should be done by the shell forking and execing the programs as its own child processes. The programs should be executed with an environment that contains the entry: parent=/myshell where /myshell is as described in 1.ix above.
3. The shell is be able to take its command line input from a file. That is, if the shell is invoked with a command line argument: myshell batchfile then batchfile is assumed to contain a set of command lines for the shell to process. When the end-of-file is reached, the shell should exit. Obviously, if the shell is invoked without a command line argument, it solicits input from the user via a prompt on the display.
4. The shell support I/O redirection on either or both stdin and/or stdout. That is, the command line programname arg1 arg2 < inputfile > outputfile will execute the program programname with arguments arg1 and arg2, the stdin FILE stream replaced by inputfile and the stdout FILE stream replaced by outputfile.
5. The shell support Arthimitic operation plus, minus, multiply, and divide.

manual

1. clone the repo
2. cd into the repo
3. run the command make
4. enjoy

Image from the starting point.