I'm looking for a tutorial on writting a unix shell in C

cdog · 01-02-2007, 05:23 PM

As the title says, I want to write in C a simple shell. Do you know a good tutorial?

bitva · 01-02-2007, 05:34 PM

http://linuxgazette.net/111/ramankutty.html

That was the second google hit for "how to write your own linux shell"

I'm sure you can find more. I don't know enough to help you other then that.

cdog · 01-03-2007, 08:29 AM

Thanks bitva, but I knew about that one.

Indiestory · 01-03-2007, 10:57 AM

easiest way would be too look at the source for one that already exists, try have alot of text parsing stuff, i was thinking about doing one today acutally ,but i realised i know very little C as of yet.

cdog · 01-05-2007, 02:38 AM

That's a good idea indiestory, but all I could find were pretty complex shells and hard to follow the code. That's whay I prefer a tutorial.