background processes in shell

[Rida]

I have made the shell which can do ls , ls -a, cd, and cd ..
Now the problem is that i wana do that processes in the background ...
Can any body help me??

I can post my code here.

[devils casper]

Just put & at the end of command and it will run in background.

Process &

[egan]

I think he actually made his own shell?

[Rubberman]

I think he actually made his own shell?

Probably a school project. In my deep, dark past professional life I actually wrote shell programming languages in my job. I even wrote one that used curses to provide a full text-based GUI environment that conformed to the CDE standards (of the time - this was in the mid-80's). It used text files (scripts) to define the menus, options, capabilities and all that good stuff. It was for an office-automation product based on the QNX operating system - we OEM'd that so the customer only saw our software and had no idea what the OS was, other than it also had a DOS emulator so that folks could run their favorite MS/PC-DOS programs. The product was launched, and we had a number of significant customers, but the company went bust before we could get enough traction to survive. My next startup went from 7 employees in 1988 to being one of the 60 largest application software companies (almost $200M in sales) by the time I left at the end of 2005.