Simple Shell Project

Contributors: George S. Mulbah and Sunday Deborah; ALX Students in Cohort 17.

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Introduction

This Simple Shell project is a command-line interpreter developed as a part of our ALX Software engineeringProgram. It is designed to demonstrate our understanding of fundamental concepts in C programming, including process management, system calls, and basic user interaction. It serves as a basic Unix-like shell that allows users to execute simple commands and provides a minimal shell experience.

Project Description

This shell is a basic shell that prints a prompt, waits for user to enter command, handles user input and executes basic shell commands. It provides the following functionalities:

• Displays a simple prompt (where 'prompt' is a customizable string; e.g., debs_george$ for this project).
• Accepts one-word commands from the user and executes them.
• Handles errors gracefully, including displaying an error message for command not found.
• Closes the shell when the "end of file" condition is encountered.
• Provides a clean and minimalistic shell experience without advanced features.

To Run this project you must compile it with this command

gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=gnu89 *.c -o hsh