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		dijit on Dec 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Write a Shell in C (2015) My understanding is that it's easier to understand a simple source tree, you can understand how the more complex shells work underneath. The author probably started it as a learning excercise.

chubot on Dec 6, 2016 [–]

See my reply -- that's why I posted it here, so people could see an example of the algorithms and data structures for shell, but that's not the purpose of the project.

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