miniShellPokemon

Makefile.-.miniShellPokemon.-.Visual.Studio.Code.2025-06-27.16-57-37.mp4

A 42-style minishell with a Pokémon twist: a fully interactive shell written in C, paired with custom battle-themed data and ASCII art.

Overview

miniShellPokemon is a custom shell built as part of the 42 minishell journey, extended with a Pokémon-flavored layer. It implements the core shell features expected from a Unix-like interactive shell and adds a playful game-oriented module backed by external Pokémon data.

Features

• Command parsing with quotes, pipes, redirections, and wildcard expansion.
• Environment variable expansion and shell-like token handling.
• Builtin commands: echo, cd, pwd, env, export, unset, and exit.
• Here-doc support and signal handling for interactive use.
• Readline integration with command history.
• Pokémon battle mode with ASCII art, attacks, and external data support.

Build

Requirements

• GCC or Clang
• readline
• A Unix-like environment

Compile

make

Extra targets

make re      # full rebuild
make clean   # remove object files
make fclean  # remove objects and the binary
make valgrind    # run with valgrind and the provided suppression file
make poke    # clone the pokemonData repository if it is missing

Run

./minishell

Example commands:

echo hello world
export USERNAME=gpicchio
pwd
cat file.txt | grep minishell
ls -la > output.txt

Project Structure

• parsing/ - lexical analysis, quote handling, expansions, redirections, and wildcard logic.
• exec_commands/ - command execution, pipes, and process orchestration.
• builtin/ - shell builtin implementations.
• binary_tree/ - execution tree construction.
• pipex/ - pipeline helpers reused by the shell.
• pokemonData/ - data assets for the Pokémon-themed part of the project.

Notes

• The project uses libft and readline.
• The readLine.supp file is provided to keep Valgrind output clean during interactive runs.
• The poke target expects Git to be available so it can fetch the data repository when needed.

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Made for the 42 minishell project, with a Pokémon-inspired presentation layer.