.. title: Stephen Brennan Tutorial on writing a shell
.. slug: stephen-brennan-tutorial-on-writing-a-shell
.. date: 2016-12-30 17:39:14 UTC-08:00
.. tags: tutorial, software
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After learning to program in C language, the next best thing to attempt will be writing some small utility in C.
I landed upon a great tutorial (https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/) that taught how to write a shell with some builtin utilities in C. I tried_ that tutorial today and saw how to build a shell.

That's the best way to learn about the init, fork, parent process, child process and the shell loop itself.
As a side-effect, I also setup and used CLion_  on my computer.

.. _tried: https://github.com/orsenthil/simple-shell
.. _CLion: https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/