🐚 Minishell: Your Tiny but Mighty Shell

This project was an awesome deep dive into the heart of how Unix shells work! I built a fully functional miniature shell in C, mimicking the core features you see in Bash. The challenge? Doing it all from scratch, without relying on high-level libraries. It was all about understanding the raw power of system calls and low-level programming.

✨ What I Learned & Implemented:

• Command Parsing & Execution: Taking your typed commands and figuring out what to do with them. Think of it as the shell's brain deciphering your instructions.
• Pipes (|) and Redirection (>, <, >>): Making data flow! Connecting the output of one command to the input of another, and shuffling data to and from files.
• Signal Handling (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+\): Learning how to gracefully respond to interruptions like SIGINT and SIGQUIT. No crashing allowed!
• Environment Variable Management: Handling those $PATH and $HOME variables that make your system work.
• Process Management (fork(), execve()): The magic of creating new processes to run your commands and then executing them.
• No High-Level Libraries: This was the real challenge! Everything was built using fundamental C functions and system calls.

🛠️ Getting Started:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/AKL001/MiniShell.git
   cd minishell

2. Compile the project: Just run make in the project directory:

   make

3. Run the shell: Once compiled, execute the minishell binary:

   ./minishell

4. Exit the shell: Simply type exit and press Enter.

⚙️ Prerequisites:

• C Compiler (gcc): You'll need a C compiler to build the project.
• Linux or macOS Environment: This project relies on specific system calls and signal handling mechanisms common in these environments.

This project was a fantastic journey into systems programming, and I'm excited to build upon this foundation! 🚀