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Build your own Shell
Learn about parsing shell commands, executing programs and more
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A shell is a command-line interface that executes commands and manages processes. In this challenge, you'll build your own
POSIX compliant shell that's capable of interpreting
shell commands, running external programs and builtin commands like cd, pwd, echo and more.
Along the way, you'll learn about shell command parsing, REPLs, builtin commands, and more.
Stages
Navigation
Quoting
Redirection
Autocompletion
Pipelines
History
History Persistence
Ananthalakshmi Sankar
Automation Engineer at Apple
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I think the instant feedback right there in the git push is really cool.
Didn't even know that was possible!
Patrick Burris
Senior Software Developer, CenturyLink