https://github.com/radicalzephyr/minishell

A miniature shell implemented in ocaml
https://github.com/radicalzephyr/minishell

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A miniature shell implemented in ocaml

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/radicalzephyr/minishell
• Owner: RadicalZephyr
• Created: 2014-10-07T22:41:16.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-04-12T20:28:20.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-24T08:50:06.942Z (5 days ago)
• Language: OCaml
• Size: 289 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Minishell

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[![Made at the Recurse Center](http://img.shields.io/badge/Made_At-The_Recurse_Center-brightgreen.svg)](https://www.recurse.com)

This project is based on the minishell assignment taught by [Phil Nelson][nelson]

at Western Washington University for his Unix Programming class.

[nelson]: http://facultyweb.cs.wwu.edu/~phil/

... in OCaml

------------

The twist is that it's implemented in OCaml.

Dependencies

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I recommend installing OCaml via [OPAM]. In particular, I followed [the

instructions][rwoinstall] from the Real World OCaml book. At a

minimum, you must install the core libraries, and probably the

core_extended opam package as well.

    opam install core core_extended

[OPAM]: http://opam.ocaml.org/

[rwoinstall]: https://github.com/realworldocaml/book/wiki/Installation-Instructions

Building

--------

This is super easy. Along with the `core` and `core_extended`

libraries should have come a program called `corebuild`. If it's not

available on your `PATH` then you should make sure that you've done

`eval $(opam config env)` in your current shell.

Then compiling is just:

    corebuild src/minishell.native

Alternatively you could specify `minishell.byte` as the target to

produce the theoretically more debuggable and portable OCaml bytecode

version. Also, this one is slower because the bytecode is interpreted.

Assuming the build was successful, you should be able to just

`./minishell.native` and get the minishell. For maximum awesome,

instead do `rlwrap ./minishell.native`.