smash - Small Shell

A Linux shell implementation written in C/C++ as part of the Operating Systems course at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).

Features

• Built-in commands: cd, pwd, jobs, fg, kill, quit, alias and more
• Background process execution with &
• Job control and process management
• Signal handling (Ctrl+C → SIGKILL to foreground process)
• I/O redirection (>, >>)
• Pipes (|, |&)
• External command execution via fork + exec

Build

make

Run

./smash

Tech

C/C++ · Linux System Calls · fork/exec/waitpid · Signals · IPC