Kiko has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey,

I need to write a small unix shell that can fork a new
process and execute a command if it is valid, and a couple
of other things. Can someone please point me in the
right direction or tell me where i should start.

Thanks,
Kiko

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Re: Shell
by fundflow (Chaplain) on Oct 24, 2000 at 06:58 UTC
    The Perl Shell (psh) http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/

    (There is another one, but i can't recall it now.)

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      <a href=http://www.tpj.com/The Perl Journal issue #18 has an issue on psh. In the table it lists several other Perl shells, but his specs out best on features. The others listed are:

      Wall, lpsh, debugger (meaning perl -de 42), perlsh, PSH.pm, SoftList, timtosh, vbsh

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Re: Shell
by runrig (Abbot) on Oct 24, 2000 at 06:57 UTC
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