rush

rush is a minimalistic shell for Unix systems written in C.

• Disclaimer: This project is for me to learn to write Unix syscalls, code might be inefficient, feel free to point out the mistakes and open a issue for that!

Preview

Dependencies

• gcc

Building

$ make
$ sudo make install

Usage

$ ./rush

Features

• No dependencies except a compiler
• Showing current time and directory with custom color
• Syntax highlighting on valid commands using ANSI colors
• History navigation using up and down keys with history command
• Support for environment variables
• Editing using left and right arrow keys
• !! to repeat last command
• Pipes
• autojump to directorys
• stdin, stdout, stderr redirect
• Background jobs

Built in commands

• cd
• help
• exit
• history
• export
• source
• j
• bg

Todo Features

• Tab completion
• Git integration
• Allow arguments with space in double quotes

Credits

• Tutorial - Write a shell in C
• dash
• Shell assignment
• khol