https://github.com/ratfactor/zigish

A toy Unix shell written in Zig
https://github.com/ratfactor/zigish

shell unix-shell zig ziglang

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A toy Unix shell written in Zig

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ratfactor/zigish
• Owner: ratfactor
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2021-06-05T18:55:34.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-09-27T22:41:46.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-26T17:40:15.550Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: shell, unix-shell, zig, ziglang
• Language: Zig
• Homepage:
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 60
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.adoc
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
= Zigish - Zig Interactive Shell

**MOVED!** Hello, I am moving my repos to http://ratfactor.com/repos/

and setting them to read-only ("archived") on GitHub. Thank you, _-Dave_

== I am a real shell!...ish

This is a minimalist toy Unix shell written in Zig.

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*** Hello, I am a real shell! ***

> ls

README.adoc  build.zig  src  zig-cache

> date

Sat Jun  5 13:26:59 EDT 2021

> foo

ERROR: error.FileNotFound

>

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It has almost no error checking and is otherwise unsuitable for "real work" and it never will.

I started with this tutorial: https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/[Write a Shell in C].

The comments explain it pretty well.

But check out my article, http://ratfactor.com/zig/forking-is-cool[Forking is Cool] for the whole story.

Enjoy! :-)