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

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
• Built in commands
• Export environment variable
• Source commands from a file
• Editing using left and right arrow keys

Built in commands

• cd
• help
• exit
• history
• export
• source

Todo Features

• splits commands based on pipes and whitespaces
• stdin, stdout, stderr redirect
• background jobs
• tab completion
• Recalling history through ! & ~ !-

Credits

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