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Meowsh

A Unix-style shell supporting argument parsing, forking/exec, cd, and custom commands.

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A shell is a good forcing function for actually understanding fork/exec, process groups, and why cd has to be a builtin instead of a subprocess. Meowsh handles argument parsing, forking and exec’ing external commands, and a handful of custom builtins.