Kidshell is a simple POSIX shell, written in C++. This is an educational project, aimed at understanding how to interact with a POSIX-compatible API to launch child processes.
- Basic executable launch and wrapping
- Limited environment variables support
- Built-in commands: export, unset, exit
export or export -p or env - show all environmental variables
export VAR1=VALUE1 VAR2=VALUE2 ... - export variable (multiple variables)
unset VAR1 VAR2 ... - unset variable (multiple variables)
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
Requires C++11 compiler
Tested manually on macOS Mojave 10.14.3 and Linux 4.12.
Pavel Ponomarev, 2019 ([email protected])
MIT License.