Build Your Own Shell

Build a real Unix shell from the ground up: tokenize quoted command lines, parse pipelines and redirections, expand variables and glob patterns, fork/exec child processes, and dispatch built-ins like cd, export, and history. By the end you'll deeply understand how bash, zsh, dash, and every other shell actually drive the Unix process model.

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