🐚 MyShell - A Unix-like Shell in C++

A lightweight, custom-built shell written in C++.
Supports basic command execution, background jobs (&), and signal handling (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Z).

🚀 Built from scratch to understand OS internals and terminal process control.

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⚙️ Features

• ✅ Run external commands (e.g. ls, pwd, sleep 10)
• ✅ Built-in cd command
• ✅ Background process execution (sleep 5 &)
• ✅ Ctrl+C to kill foreground processes
• ✅ Ctrl+Z to suspend foreground processes
• ✅ Suspended jobs are tracked in memory (std::map)
• 🔜 Upcoming: jobs, fg, bg, I/O redirection, piping

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🏗️ Build Instructions

Requirements

• Linux/macOS (UNIX-like terminal)
• g++ installed
• make

Build

make

Run

./mysh

Project Structure

mysh/
├── src/
│   └── main.cpp         # Shell logic
├── Makefile             # Build script
├── README.md            # Project info

📜 License

MIT License — feel free to use or contribute!

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🪄 Want Extras?

Let me know if you'd like:

• A project logo or banner
• A GitHub Actions workflow (CI build/test)
• A .gif demo of the shell in action
• GitHub tags (system-programming, cpp-shell, etc.)
• A simple LICENSE file to go with MIT license

I'll generate them for you!