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arsh - ARchaic SHell

Simple shell for Unix-like systems written in C, that has a funny name (for germans).

Features

• Can run commands
• You can pipe stdout of one command to stdin of another (ex. cat main.c | wc --lines)
• cd builtin command (cd without arguments moves you to $HOME)
• exit builtin command
• CTRL+C stops running command
• Custom readline function
• Run scripts with arsh /path/to/script or by putting #!/usr/bin/env arsh at the first line of a script and making it executable.

Build

To build it, you don't need any external dependencies. Example with gcc:

gcc main.c -O3 -o arsh