/* This file is part of the sample code and exercises * used by the class "Advanced Programming in the UNIX * Environment" taught by Jan Schaumann * at Stevens Institute of * Technology. * * This file is in the public domain. * * You don't have to, but if you feel like * acknowledging where you got this code, you may * reference me by name, email address, or point * people to the course website: * https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/ */ /* * World's simplest shell. * Loops, reads input and tries to execute it. * Note: no tokenization, can be ^C'd, but does look at PATH * * ./simple-shell * $$ ls * $$ ls -l # error * $$ ^C * */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include char * getinput(char *buffer, size_t buflen) { printf("$$ "); return fgets(buffer, buflen, stdin); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { char buf[BUFSIZ]; pid_t pid; int status; /* cast to void to silence compiler warnings */ (void)argc; (void)argv; while (getinput(buf, sizeof(buf))) { buf[strlen(buf) - 1] = '\0'; if((pid=fork()) == -1) { fprintf(stderr, "shell: can't fork: %s\n", strerror(errno)); continue; } else if (pid == 0) { /* child */ execlp(buf, buf, (char *)0); fprintf(stderr, "shell: couldn't exec %s: %s\n", buf, strerror(errno)); exit(EX_UNAVAILABLE); } /* parent waits */ if ((pid=waitpid(pid, &status, 0)) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "shell: waitpid error: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } } exit(EX_OK); }