Andrew Healey • 3/16/2026

Building a Shell

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This technical article details the author's hands-on project to build a simple Unix shell in C. It covers creating the read-eval-print loop (REPL), parsing command lines into arguments (argv), and executing external commands, providing code snippets and explanations of the core concepts.

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Building a Shell

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