What is myshell-linux-mini-shell?

MyShell is a small educational Unix shell written in C for Linux. It exists so its author can learn how Linux system calls, POSIX APIs, and low level C system programming actually work, by rebuilding a simplified version of a command line shell from scratch. Where possible, the code calls Linux system calls directly rather than relying on higher level library functions, since the point of the project is to understand what happens under the hood when you type a command. The shell already supports a handful of basic Unix commands including ls, ls with the long listing flag, cat, touch, and mkdir. It also supports basic input and output redirection using the greater than, double greater than, less than, and error redirection operators. You build the project with a single make command and then run the resulting myshell binary to get an interactive prompt. The project is explicitly a work in progress rather than a finished shell. The README lists a long list of planned features that are not yet built, including pipes, running commands in the background, signal handling for interrupt and stop keys, environment variable support, wildcard expansion, command history, auto completion, and common built in commands like cd, pwd, export, and unset. The parser is also expected to improve as the project matures. This is best suited for students or hobbyist programmers who want a hands on introduction to how Unix shells are implemented, or anyone curious about POSIX system calls in C. It is released under the MIT License and is described by its author as intended purely for educational purposes rather than as a production tool.