Greetings!!

I am taking an operating systems course and my final project is to program a basic shell for any unix based system. I have no idea how to start it. I suppose I must use C but nothing else I know. I would apretiate any help or clue you could give. Honestly, thank you.

The fork and the exec calls are going to be your friends here.

I did a problem like the one you describe when I was in college and I used lex and yacc to build a command parsing system. That way I was able to easily implement shell commands in a nice easy to understand manner. It also helped me implement tab completion when all was said and done, if that is something your interested in.

Since it's a school project I won't send you my source code, but if you have any specific questions about anything in particular don't hesitate to ask.

I'm guessing the first step would be to actually print a prompt and wait for user input.